A simple quantitative assay for studying the invasive potential of high and low human metastatic variants.

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Published in Cancer Lett on December 01, 1987

Authors

M J Hendrix1, E A Seftor, R E Seftor, I J Fidler

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1: Department of Anatomy, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.

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