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Immune evasion through competitive inhibition: the shielding effect of cancer non-stem cells.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Jan 2015
Kareva Irina
Abstract excerpt
It has been recently proposed that the two emerging hallmarks of cancer, namely altered glucose metabolism and immune evasion, may in fact be fundamentally linked. This connection comes from up-regulation of glycolysis by tumor cells, which can lead to active competition for resources in the tumor microenvironment between tumor and immune cells. Here it is further proposed that cancer stem cells (CSCs) can...
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