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. 2019 Aug;597(16):4137-4138.
doi: 10.1113/JP278347. Epub 2019 Jul 25.

Physical activity-related suppression of cancer growth: is a transient increase in cytokine production required for tumour angiogenesis?

David A Hutton, Zachary S Clayton
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Physical activity-related suppression of cancer growth: is a transient increase in cytokine production required for tumour angiogenesis?

David A Hutton et al. J Physiol. 2019 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Angiogenesis; Cancer; Exercise; Interleukin-6; Natural Killer Cells.

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Figure 1.
Working hypothesis regarding how exercise increases neovascularization to relieve a hypoxic micoenvironment in cancer cells
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