Effects of exon-deleted estrogen receptor β transcript variants on growth, apoptosis and gene expression of human breast cancer cell lines
✍ Scribed by Oliver Treeck; Ingolf Juhasz-Boess; Claus Lattrich; Felicitas Horn; Regina Goerse; Olaf Ortmann
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 577 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6806
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