Open AccessLysophosphatidic Acid as a Potential Biomarker for Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancers
Author(s) -
YanMing Xu
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.280.8.719
Subject(s) - lysophosphatidic acid , medicine , ovarian cancer , biomarker , gynecologic oncology , cancer , breast cancer , oncology , gastroenterology , stage (stratigraphy) , autotaxin , gynecologic cancer , gynecology , receptor , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) has been shown to stimulate proliferation of ovarian cancer cells and is present in the ascitic fluid of patients with ovarian cancer.
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