Proteoglycans in health and disease: new concepts for heparanase function in tumor progression and metastasis.

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Published in FEBS J on August 31, 2010

Authors

Uri Barash1, Victoria Cohen-Kaplan, Ilana Dowek, Ralph D Sanderson, Neta Ilan, Israel Vlodavsky

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.

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