Association of serum follistatin levels with histological types and progression of tumor in human lung cancer

Abstract Background Follistatin (FST), an activin-binding protein, inhibits activin action by interfering with activin binding to its receptor. The prognostic value of FST has been studied in various cancers. However, these studies rarely focus on lung cancer. In our study, we investigated the relat...

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Main Authors: Pengyu Zhang, Yingxin Ruan, Jun Xiao, Fangfang Chen, Xuejun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:Cancer Cell International
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12935-018-0664-2