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Modeling invasion of metastasizing cancer cells to bone marrow utilizing ecological principles

BACKGROUND: The invasion of a new species into an established ecosystem can be directly compared to the steps involved in cancer metastasis. Cancer must grow in a primary site, extravasate and survive in the circulation to then intravasate into target organ (invasive species survival in transport)....

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Autores principales: Chen, Kun-Wan, Pienta, Kenneth J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21967667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-8-36