Cancer metastasis and in vivo dissemination of tissue-dwelling pathogens: Extrapolation of mechanisms and exchange of treatment strategies thereof

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-377

  Haile, Simon ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

CELL HYPOXIA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 37449023373     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.04.042     Document Type: Article

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