Physiological levels of tumstatin, a fragment of collagen IV !3 chain, are generated by MMP-9 proteolysis and suppress angiogenesis via !V"3 integrin
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1Center for Matrix Biology, Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 2 Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 3 Department of Anatomy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 *Correspondence: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2008