Evo-Devo and the evolution of cancer: A hypothesis for metamorphic therapies for the cancers of prolactin-influenced tumourigenesis: With special reference to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 629-630

  Pearson, Roy Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EVOLUTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; METAMORPHOSIS; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROLACTIN;

AMPHIBIA; EQUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 62949245191     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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