Unraveling the microenvironmental influences on the normal mammary gland and breast cancer

Seminars in Cancer Biology - Tập 18 Số 5 - Trang 311-321 - 2008
Britta Weigelt1, Mina J. Bissell1
1Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 977-225A, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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