Switching Roles of TGF-β in Cancer Development: Implications for Therapeutic Target and Biomarker Studies

TGF-β induces complicated and even opposite responses in numerous biological processes, e.g., tumor suppression in pre-malignant cells and metastasis promotion in cancer cells. However, the cellular contextual determinants of these different TGF-β roles remain elusive, and the driver genes triggerin...

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Main Authors: Nan Sun, Ayumu Taguchi, Samir Hanash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-11-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/5/12/109