VEGF-C-induced lymphangiogenesis in sentinel lymph nodes promotes tumor metastasis to distant sites.

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Published in Blood on October 10, 2006

Authors

Satoshi Hirakawa1, Lawrence F Brown, Shohta Kodama, Karri Paavonen, Kari Alitalo, Michael Detmar

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1: Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Department of Immunobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

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