Lack of oxygen in cancer cells leads to growth and metastasis

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

The proteins HIF-1a and CD24 have both been implicated in the aggressive characteristics of hypoxic cancers. A new study shows that HIF-1a drives CD24 overexpression, and that CD24 then drives aggressive tumor features.

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