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Cell-Cell Fusion and the Roads to Novel Properties of Tumor Hybrid Cells.
Cells - 11 Jun 2021
Sieler Mareike, Weiler Julian, Dittmar Thomas
Abstract excerpt
The phenomenon of cancer cell-cell fusion is commonly associated with the origin of more malignant tumor cells exhibiting novel properties, such as increased drug resistance or an enhanced metastatic capacity. However, the whole process of cell-cell fusion is still not well understood and seems to be rather inefficient since only a certain number of (cancer) cells are capable of fusing and only a rather small...
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