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Reduced growth of human breast cancer xenografts in hosts homozygous for the lit mutation.
Cancer research - 1 Apr 1996
Yang X F, Beamer W G, Huynh H, Pollak M
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is a potent breast cancer mitogen. Growth hormone (GH) up-regulates hepatic IGF-I gene expression and circulating IGF-I level. Tissue IGF bioactivity is influenced not only by circulating IGF-I and IGF-II levels but also by autocrine and paracrine production of these growth factors and by IGF binding proteins. There is considerable person-to-person variability in GH-IGF-I...
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