Engineering the pre-metastatic niche

Nature Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Aguado, Brian A ^a,b   Bushnell, Grace G ^c   Rao, Shreyas S ^d   Jeruss, Jacqueline S ^c   Shea, Lonnie D ^c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d University of Alabama   (United States)

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EID: 85029873999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2157846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-017-0077     Document Type: Review

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