The roles of E-cadherin and hepatocyte growth factor in human ovarian surface epithelial physiology and pathology

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in the Western world. This neoplasm arises de novo from the ovarian surface epithelium (OSE). The OSE is a simple mesothelium which, paradoxically, acquires complex epithelial characteristics in the course of neoplastic progressi...

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Main Author: Wong, Alice Sze Tsai
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11185