Disabling defences in the brain

Janine T. Erler ()
Additional contact information
Janine T. Erler: Janine T. Erler is at the Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark.

Nature, 2014, vol. 508, issue 7494, 46-47

Abstract: The identification of the enzyme plasmin as a defence against cancer cells that have spread to the brain, and of tumour-cell serpin proteins that inhibit plasmin production, outlines a mechanism for the formation of brain metastases.

Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/508046a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:508:y:2014:i:7494:d:10.1038_508046a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/508046a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().