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Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 585674, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/585674
Clinical Study

Microenvironment Elements Involved in the Development of Pancreatic Cancer Tumor

Katarzyna Gardian,1 Sława Janczewska,1 and Marek Durlik1,2

1Department of Surgical Research and Transplantology, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, 5 Pawinskiego Street, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
2Department of Gastroenterology and Transplantology Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs in Warsaw, Poland

Received 29 June 2012; Accepted 22 November 2012

Academic Editor: Grazyna Rydzewska

Copyright © 2012 Katarzyna Gardian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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