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Nicotine Promotes Tumor Growth and Metastasis in Mouse Models of Lung Cancer

BACKGROUND: Nicotine is the major addictive component of tobacco smoke. Although nicotine is generally thought to have limited ability to initiate cancer, it can induce cell proliferation and angiogenesis in a variety of systems. These properties might enable nicotine to facilitate the growth of tum...

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Autores principales: Davis, Rebecca, Rizwani, Wasia, Banerjee, Sarmistha, Kovacs, Michelle, Haura, Eric, Coppola, Domenico, Chellappan, Srikumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007524