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An Intricate Connection between Alternative Splicing and Phenotypic Plasticity in Development and Cancer.
Cells - 21 Dec 2019
Biamonti Giuseppe, Infantino Lucia, Gaglio Daniela, Amato Angela
Abstract excerpt
During tumor progression, hypoxia, nutrient deprivation or changes in the extracellular environment (i.e., induced by anti-cancer drugs) elicit adaptive responses in cancer cells. Cellular plasticity increases the chance that tumor cells may survive in a challenging microenvironment, acquire new mechanisms of resistance to conventional drugs, and spread to distant sites. Re-activation of stem pathways appears as...
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