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The chemokine <scp>CXCL</scp>12 and its receptor <scp>CXCR</scp>4 are implicated in human seminoma metastasis
15 Mar 2013
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Seminoma and non-seminoma tumours increasingly occur within the western population. These tumours originate from carcinoma in situ (CIS) cells, which arise from dysfunctional gonocytes. CXCL12 and its receptors, CXCR4 and CXCR7, have been implicated in migration, proliferation and survival of gonocytes and their precursors and progeny, primordial germ cells and spermatogonial stem cells respectively. We...
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