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Going malignant: the hypoxia-cancer connection in the prostate.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Aug 2002
Hochachka P W, Rupert J L, Goldenberg L, Gleave M, Kozlowski P
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The metabolic organization of both normal and malignant prostate cellular phenotypes involves some unusual and surprising features. In particular, both conditions exhibit ratios of NADH/NAD+ and NADPH/NADP+ characteristic of high oxidative states despite a chronic shortage of O2 in both conditions. In this paper, we observe that, in prostate cancer cells, the oxidizing power of the fatty acid synthesis (FAS)...
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