Nature Medicine
1, 282 - 284 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0495-282
Elevated plasma levels of TGF- 1 in patients with invasive prostate cancerVesna 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 REFERENCES
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