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- Title
Birthday of a breakthrough: fibronectin research proves important, but not as originally expected.
- Authors
Longtin, Robert
- Abstract
Focuses on the discovery of fibronectin, a protein that was present on the surface of normal cells but not cancer cells. Statement of Richard Hynes, who was one of the first scientists who discovered the protein, regarding the discovery which he termed as large external transformation sensitive protein; Other important discoveries that were spawned by the identification of fibronectin; Need to understand the role fibronectin plays in cancer progression.
- Subjects
FIBRONECTINS; CANCER research; BLOOD proteins; EXTRACELLULAR matrix proteins; GLOBULINS
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2004, Vol 96, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/96.1.6