Cellular reaction to hypoxia: sensing and responding to an adverse environment

Ioanna Papandreou1, Ashley Powell, Ai Lin Lim

  • 1Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Room 1245, CCSR South 269, Campus Drive Stanford, CA 94305-5152, USA.

Mutation Research
|December 18, 2004
PubMed

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