Targeting the tumor microenvironment.

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Published in Front Biosci on May 01, 2007

Authors

Paraic A Kenny1, Genee Y Lee, Mina J Bissell

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1: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. pakenny@lbl.gov

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