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Monitoring Functionality and Morphology of Vasculature Recruited by Factors Secreted by Fast-growing Tumor-generating Cells
Published on: November 23, 2014
Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Applications--Second Annual Meeting. 13-14 December 1999, Washington DC, USA
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Angiogenesis Research Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. msimons@caregroup.harvard.edu
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