Insulin-like growth factors and neoplasia

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 505-518

  Pollak, Michael N ^a   Schernhammer, Eva S ^b   Hankinson, Susan E ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MODEL; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 3042781558     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1387     Document Type: Review

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