Extracellular matrix, nuclear and chromatin structure, and gene expression in normal tissues and malignant tumors: a work in progress.

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Published in Adv Cancer Res on January 01, 2007

Authors

Virginia A Spencer1, Ren Xu, Mina J Bissell

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1: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

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