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Jingwen Wang1, Yuhong Huang2, Jun Zhang2

  • 1Department of Pathology, Dalian Medical University, Key Laboratory for Tumor Metastasis and Intervention of Liaoning Province, 9 West, Lvshun Southern Road, Dalian Liaoning 116044, China; Institute of Medical Technology, Ningbo College of Health Science, No.51, XueFu Road, Ningbo Zhejiang 315100, China.

Cancer Letters
|January 18, 2018
PubMed

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LymphangiogenesisLymphatic metastasisNeuropilin-2 (NRP-2)VEGF-C/D-NRP-2 axis tumor

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