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Nature Medicine  1, 282 - 284 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0495-282

Elevated plasma levels of TGF-bold beta1 in patients with invasive prostate cancer

Vesna Ivanovic1, Arnold Melman1, Brian Davis-Joseph1, Mira Valcic1 & Jan Geliebter1

1Department of Urology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10461, USA


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