Leptin promotes melanoma tumor growth in mice related to increasing circulating endothelial progenitor cells numbers and plasma NO production

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies propose that obesity increases the risk of several cancers, including melanoma. Obesity increases the expression of leptin, a multifunctional peptide produced predominantly by adipocytes which may promote tumor growth. Several recently experiments have suggested t...

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Autores principales: Amjadi, Fatemehsadat, Javanmard, Shaghaygh Haghjooy, Zarkesh-Esfahani, Hamid, Khazaei, Majid, Narimani, Manijeh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-30-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-9966-30-21

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