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SUBMITTER: Byrum SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3329661 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Byrum Stephanie D SD Washam Charity L CL Montgomery Corey O CO Tackett Alan J AJ Suva Larry J LJ
Sarcoma 20120306
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone cancer of children and is established during stages of rapid bone growth. The disease is a consequence of immature osteoblast differentiation, which gives way to a rapidly synthesized incompletely mineralized and disorganized bone matrix. The mechanism of osteosarcoma tumorogenesis is poorly understood, and few proteomic studies have been used to interrogate the disease thus far. Accordingly, these studies have identified proteins that have been known ...[more]