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Identification of Potential Tumor Differentiation Factor (TDF) Receptor from Steroid-responsive and Steroid-resistant Breast Cancer Cells
2 Dec 2011
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Tumor differentiation factor (TDF) is a recently discovered protein, produced by the pituitary gland and secreted into the bloodstream. TDF and TDF-P1, a 20-amino acid peptide selected from the open reading frame of TDF, induce differentiation in human breast and prostate cancer cells but not in other cells. TDF protein has no identified site of action or receptor, and its mechanism of action is unknown. Here, we...
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