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Mathematical model for the cancer stem cell hypothesis.
Cell proliferation - 1 Feb 2006
Ganguly R, Puri I K
Abstract excerpt
Recent research on the origin of brain cancer has implicated a subpopulation of self-renewing brain cancer stem cells for malignant tumour growth. Various genes that regulate self-renewal in normal stem cells are also found in cancer stem cells. This implies that cancers can occur because of mutations in normal stem cells and early progenitor cells. A predictive mathematical model based on the cell compartment...
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