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Direct intra-tumoral injection of zinc-acetate halts tumor growth in a xenograft model of prostate cancer

Intracellular levels of zinc have shown a strong inverse correlation to growth and malignancy of prostate cancer. To date, studies of zinc supplementation in prostate cancer have been equivocal and have not accounted for bioavailability of zinc. Therefore, we hypothesized that direct intra-tumoral i...

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Autores principales: Shah, Maulik R, Kriedt, Christopher L, Lents, Nathan H, Hoyer, Mary K, Jamaluddin, Nimah, Klein, Claudette, Baldassare, Joseph
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19534805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-28-84