Tumor Metabolism of Malignant Gliomas

Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1469-1484

  Ru, Peng ^a   Williams, Terence M ^a   Chakravarti, Arnab ^a   Guo, Deliang ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Glioblastoma; Glucose; LDLR; Lipids; LXR; SREBP 1; Tumor metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906791452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers5041469     Document Type: Review

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