A specific cholesterol metabolic pathway is established in a subset of HCCs for tumor growth.

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Published in J Mol Cell Biol on October 26, 2013

Authors

Ming Lu1, Xi-Han Hu, Qin Li, Ying Xiong, Guang-Jing Hu, Jia-Jia Xu, Xiao-Nan Zhao, Xi-Xiao Wei, Catherine C Y Chang, Yin-Kun Liu, Fa-Jun Nan, Jia Li, Ta-Yuan Chang, Bao-Liang Song, Bo-Liang Li

Author Affiliations

1: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.

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