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Ayon A Hassan1, Margarita Artemenko1, Maggie K S Tang1

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.

Cancers
|August 14, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
glycanovarian carcinomaperitoneal metastasisselectinshear stress

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