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Mouse fibroblast‐activation protein
15 Jun 1998
Abstract excerpt
The human fibroblast-activation protein (FAP), a member of the serine protease family, was discovered as an inducible type-II cell-surface glycoprotein selectively expressed by reactive stromal fibroblasts of epithelial cancers and healing wounds. Antibodies directed against human FAP have a clinical use for antibody-based tumor imaging. As part of an effort to generate animal models of FAP expression in...
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