Intratumoral hepatic stellate cells as a poor prognostic marker and a new treatment target for hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Published in PLoS One on November 20, 2013

Authors

Bin Sun1, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xianshuo Cheng, Yu Zhang, Lei Chen, Lehua Shi, Zhenyu Liu, Haihua Qian, Mengchao Wu, Zhengfeng Yin

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1: Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

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