Heparanase: Breaking down barriers in tumors

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 735-

  Eccles, Suzanne A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARAN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER INVASION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR;

ANIMALS; GLUCURONIDASE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAMMALS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 0345210947     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10455     Document Type: Short Survey

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