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Hypoxic stress proteins: Survival of the fittest
1 Jan 1996
Abstract excerpt
The importance of tumor microenvironmental in malignant progression has been largely ignored. Tumor cells protect themselves from changes in the microenvironment due to a decrease in nutrients and oxygen by reducing macromolecular synthesis and inducing genes that will promote angiogenesis and tissue remodeling. This ability of transformed cells to survive fluctuations in oxygen tensions is clinically important,...
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