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Increased Pleiotrophin Concentrations in Papillary Thyroid Cancer

BACKGROUND: Thyroid nodules are common, and approximately 5% of these nodules are malignant. Pleiotrophin (PTN) is a heparin-binding growth factor which is overexpressed in many cancers. The expression of PTN in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is unknown. METHOD AND FINDINGS: 74 subjects (age 47 ± 12...

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Autores principales: Jee, Youn Hee, Sadowski, Samira M., Celi, Francesco S., Xi, Liqiang, Raffeld, Mark, Sacks, David B., Remaley, Alan T., Wellstein, Anton, Kebebew, Electron, Baron, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26914549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149383