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Embryonic morphogenetic field induces phenotypic reversion in cancer cells. Review article.
Current pharmaceutical biotechnology - 1 Feb 2011
Bizzarri Mariano, Cucina A, Biava P M, Proietti S, D'Anselmi F, Dinicola S, Pasqualato A, Lisi E
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Cancer cells introduced into developing embryos can be committed to a complete reversion of their malignant phenotype. It is unlikely that such effects could be ascribed to only few molecular components interacting according to a simple linear-dynamics model, and they claim against the somatic mutation theory of cancer. Some 50 years ago, Needham and Waddington speculated that cancer represents an escape from...
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