Opinion: Tumour-educated macrophages promote tumour progression and metastasis
✍ Scribed by Pollard, Jeffrey W.
- Book ID
- 109947083
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 992 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1474-1776
- DOI
- 10.1038/nrc1256
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