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Mitochondria and Cancer.
Molecular cell - 3 Mar 2016
Zong Wei-Xing, Rabinowitz Joshua D, White Eileen
Abstract excerpt
Decades ago, Otto Warburg observed that cancers ferment glucose in the presence of oxygen, suggesting that defects in mitochondrial respiration may be the underlying cause of cancer. We now know that the genetic events that drive aberrant cancer cell proliferation also alter biochemical metabolism, including promoting aerobic glycolysis, but do not typically impair mitochondrial function. Mitochondria supply...
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