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Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth

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Buongiorno, P., Bapat, B. (2005). Rho GTPases and Cancer. In: Macieira-Coelho, A. (eds) Developmental Biology of Neoplastic Growth. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27671-8_2

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