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Involvement of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1, a G protein coupled receptor, in melanoma development.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Nov 2004
Marín Yarí E, Chen Suzie
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Melanoma is the aberrant proliferation of melanocytes, the cells in the skin responsible for pigment production. In the United States the current lifetime risk of melanoma development is 1 in 57 in males and 1 in 81 in females. In its early stages melanoma can be surgically removed with great suc...
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