Bone Marrow Microenvironment and Tumor Progression

Cancer Microenvironment - Tập 1 Số 1 - Trang 23-35 - 2008
Christophe Chantrain1,2, Olivier Feron3, Étienne Marbaix1,4, Yves A. DeClerck5
1Cell Biology Unit, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
2Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
3Unit of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
4Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
5Division of Hematology-Oncology, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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