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p53 and the Carcinogenicity of Chronic Inflammation.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Nov 2016
Gudkov Andrei V, Komarova Elena A
Abstract excerpt
Chronic inflammation is a major cancer predisposition factor. Constitutive activation of the inflammation-driving NF-κB pathway commonly observed in cancer or developed in normal tissues because of persistent infections or endogenous tissue irritating factors, including products of secretion by senescent cells accumulating with age, markedly represses p53 functions. In its turn, p53 acts as a suppressor of...
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