Growing a tumor stroma: A role for granulin and the bone marrow

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 516-519

  Bateman, Andrew ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 1; CD45 ANTIGEN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; PROGRANULIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STROMA; TUMOR STROMA;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; NEOPLASMS; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 79551569628     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI46088     Document Type: Note

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