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Circadian clock circuitry in colorectal cancer.
World journal of gastroenterology - 21 Apr 2014
Mazzoccoli Gianluigi, Vinciguerra Manlio, Papa Gennaro, Piepoli Ada
Abstract excerpt
Colorectal cancer is the most prevalent among digestive system cancers. Carcinogenesis relies on disrupted control of cellular processes, such as metabolism, proliferation, DNA damage recognition and repair, and apoptosis. Cell, tissue, organ and body physiology is characterized by periodic fluctuations driven by biological clocks operating through the clock gene machinery. Dysfunction of molecular clockworks and...
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