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Homotypic cell cannibalism, a cell‐death process regulated by the nuclear protein 1, opposes to metastasis in pancreatic cancer
23 Jul 2012
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely deadly disease for which all treatments available have failed to improve life expectancy significantly. This may be explained by the high metastatic potential of PDAC cells, which results from their dedifferentiation towards a mesenchymal phenotype. Some PDAC present cell-in-cell structures whose origin and significance are currently unknown. We show here that...
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