YAP orchestrates heterotypic endothelial cell communication via HGF/c-MET signaling in liver tumorigenesis
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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE128046 | GEO | 2020/09/15
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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