Article
[Cytogenetic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of malignant neoplasms].
TSitologiia i genetika - 1 Jan 2000
Tiniakov I U, Tiniakov G G, Piatnitskiĭ N N, Zhminchenko V M
Abstract excerpt
Malignant tumors and pre-cancer processes are characterized by a high proliferative activity of cells, high chromosome variability and extremely high genome variability which is 10 times, as high as that in non-tumor actively proliferating tissues. A clear positive correlation is found between the cell division rate and the level of chromosome variability.
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