[In addition to many other phenotypic alterations of the U-266 cell line, having developed as a consequence of tumor progression in vitro, its growth factor requirement seems to have evolved from a dependence on IL-6 as a paracrine growth factor to a capacity for autonomous growth, dependent on autocrine IL-6 stimulation.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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