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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-10-01
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Series: | Cancer Cell International |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12935-018-0664-2 |