Putting tumours in context

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-54

  Bissell, Mina J ^a   Radisky, Derek ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0035495401     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35094059     Document Type: Article

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