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The chemokine receptor CXCR7 influences prognosis in human glioma in an IDH1-dependent manner.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 2015
Birner Peter, Tchorbanov Andrey, Natchev Sevdalin, Tuettenberg Jochen, Guentchev Marin
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AIMS: The chemokine receptor CXCR7 is found on glioma cells and glioma-associated vessels and dependent upon its localisation on tumour or endothelial cells the CXCR7 receptor can mediate glioma cell invasion and tumour angiogenesis. Its expression predicts survival in several types of cancers. METHODS: We immunohistochemically studied the expression of CXCR7 and its ligand SDF1α in a cohort of 354 human patients...
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