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Therapeutic Potential of Statins in Thyroid Proliferative Disease
Link ID 6256
Title Therapeutic Potential of Statins in Thyroid Proliferative Disease
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/573953?src=rss
Description Satins have been shown to exert pleiotropic effects on cell proliferation, survival, and migration, which suggests they could have chemopreventive properties. The author proposes that statins might have therapeutic potential in thyroid proliferative disease.
Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism
Category Articles > Hematology-Oncology
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Date May 31, 2008
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