Mechanism for bone invasion of oral canc
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Masato Okamoto; Kenji Hiura; Go Ohe; Yasuo Ohba; Kunihoro Terai; Tetsuya Oshikaw
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## BACKGROUND. Osteoclastic bone resorption is an important step in bone invasion in several malignancies. Although interleukin (IL)-6 accelerates osteoclastic bone resorption, it remains unclear whether IL-6 may be involved in bone invasion of oral cancer. ## METHODS. The pit formation assay w