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A metabolic hypothesis of cell growth and death in pancreatic cancer.
Pancreas - 1 Jan 2002
Boros Laszlo G, Lee Wai-Nang Paul, Go Vay Liang W
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INTRODUCTION: Tumor cells, just as other living cells, possess the potential for proliferation, differentiation, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis. There is a specific metabolic phenotype associated with each of these conditions, characterized by the production of both energy and special substrates necessary for the cells to function in that particular state. Unlike that of normal living cells, the metabolic...
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