What does AMF stand for?

Autocrine Motility Factor

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The test detects protein discovered only two years ago -- autocrine motility factor (AMF) -- which is secreted by cancer cells and helps them spread to other sites in the body.

Good news for early cancer diagnosis...

17 NATURE that tumor cells secrete a substance the scientists called autocrine motility factor (AMF).

Stopping the deadly invasion of cancer

Liotta and his co-workers isolated the substance, a protein they call autocrine motility factor (AMF), from human melanoma (skin cancer) cells that had migrated to brain tissue.

Cancer migration factor discovered