Road map to metastasis

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 999-1000

  Van't Veer, Laura J ^a   Weigelt, Britta ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE;

BONE METASTASIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0041965961     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0803-999b     Document Type: Short Survey

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