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Polyamines induce malignant transformation in cultured NIH 3T3 fibroblasts.
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology - 1 Jan 1998
Tabib A, Bachrach U
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have demonstrated that polyamines accumulate in cancer cells and that overproduction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), which catalyzes polyamine synthesis, elicits the acquisition of the transformed phenotype. However, it was not clear whether the overexpression of ODC and the accumulation of polyamines are only innocent by-products of the transformation process. In this study we demonstrate that...
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