Shedding LIGHT (TNFSF14) on the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer liver metastases
✍ Scribed by Jian Zhong Qin, Vivek Upadhyay, Bellur Prabhakar…
- Book ID
- 120690389
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 466 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1479-5876
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