Metastasis is driven by sequential elevation of H-ras and Smad2 levels.

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Published in Nat Cell Biol on July 01, 2002

Authors

Martin Oft1, Rosemary J Akhurst, Allan Balmain

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1: University of California at San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Box 0875, San Francisco, California 94143-0875, USA.

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