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Integrins in tumor angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis

Philippe Foubert1, Judith A Varner

  • 1Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|September 13, 2011
PubMed

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