Dependency of colorectal cancer on a TGF-β-driven program in stromal cells for metastasis initiation.

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Published in Cancer Cell on November 13, 2012

Authors

Alexandre Calon1, Elisa Espinet, Sergio Palomo-Ponce, Daniele V F Tauriello, Mar Iglesias, María Virtudes Céspedes, Marta Sevillano, Cristina Nadal, Peter Jung, Xiang H-F Zhang, Daniel Byrom, Antoni Riera, David Rossell, Ramón Mangues, Joan Massagué, Elena Sancho, Eduard Batlle

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1: Oncology Programme, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

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