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Intratumoral functional heterogeneity and chemotherapy.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Mar 2014
Sipos Ferenc, Constantinovits Miklós, Műzes Györgyi
Abstract excerpt
Intratumoral heterogeneity including genetic and nongenetic mechanisms refers to biological differences amongst malignant cells originated within the same tumor. Both, cell differentiation hierarchy and stochasticity in gene expression and signaling pathways may result in phenotypic differences of cancer cells. Since a tumor consists of cancer cell clones that display distinct behaviours, changes in clonal...
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