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Editorial
. 2015 May;2(2):97-100.
doi: 10.2217/mmt.15.11. Epub 2015 May 18.

Melanomas' fatal attraction to lysophosphatidic acid trails: a new prognostic and therapeutic approach?

Andrew J Muinonen-Martin  1   1 , Robert H Insall  2   2
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Editorial

Melanomas' fatal attraction to lysophosphatidic acid trails: a new prognostic and therapeutic approach?

Andrew J Muinonen-Martin et al. Melanoma Manag. 2015 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: cell migration; chemotaxis; lipid phosphate phosphatases; metastasis; pagetoid spread; signaling lipids.

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Financial & competing interests disclosure The authors have no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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