Background. Favorable neuroblastomas frequently express high levels of the TrkA receptor, and these tumors have a propensity to either differentiate or regress, but the mechanisms responsible for these two fates are unclear. Procedure. To study TrkA signal transduction in neuroblastoma (nb), we stab
Signal transduction pathways and chromatin structure in cancer cells
โ Scribed by Virginia A. Spencer; James R. Davie
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0730-2312
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