[Since the insulin-like growth factors are potent mitogens for breast tumor epithelial cells, this further supports the notion of a paracrine growth-promoting role for the insulin-like growth factors in breast lesions and suggests that IGF-II may be the more important growth promoter in malignant lesions.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE