Nodal promotes glioblastoma cell growth

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  De Silva, Tanya ^a   Ye, Gang ^a   Liang, Yao Yun ^a   Fu, Guodong ^a   Xu, Guoxiong ^b   Peng, Chun ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JINSHAN HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ALK4; ALK7; Glioblastoma; Nodal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874427698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00059     Document Type: Article

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