Proteinases and extracellular matrix degradation in breast cancer.

A variety of proteases have been shown to promote the progression of cancer by virtue of their ability to degrade extracellular proteinaceous barriers, such as basement membrane and interstitial stroma. At the outset of this study available evidence strongly implicated cathepsin D in breast cancer m...

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Main Author: Fortgens, Philip Hendrik.
Other Authors: Dennison, Clive.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9728