Kras, Pten, NF-κB, and inflammation: dangerous liaisons

Paul J Chiao1, Jianhua Ling

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. pjchiao@mdanderson.org

Cancer Discovery
|May 16, 2012
PubMed

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