cancer cell
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cancer
noun
uk/ˈkæn.sər/us/ˈkæn.sɚ/
a serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk/sel/us/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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They then tested this result in vivo by transplanting poorly invasive breastcancercelllines into the cleared mammary fat pad of immune-deficient mice.
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Knocking down gene expression for growth hormone-releasing hormone inhibits proliferation of humancancercelllines.
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Progestininduced caveolin-1 expression mediates breastcancercellproliferation.
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This study also revealed that levels of caspase-6 are low in all breastcancercelllines.
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Although every roguecancercellmay be annihilated, the psychological echo may resonate for decades.
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The study showed that standard humancancercelllines.
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These data support the notion of a metastatic niche formed by bone marrow and bone stromal cells that promotes metastaticcancercellgrowth.
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In this section, we focus on how these biological effects might impact oncancercellgrowth, progression and response to therapy.
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However, a subset of telomerase-positivecancercelllines with low promoter activity were not sensitised, suggesting a limiting dependence on high promoter activity.
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The strongest staining is noticed in large tumours at the apoptoticcancercellmasses (fig. 5e).
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There is a widespread effort to develop inhibitors against signal transduction molecules that play a key role in the proliferative, migratory and invasive properties of acancercell.
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These cells have the ability not only to proliferate in bone but to coax osteoblasts and osteoclasts to produce factors within the bone microenvironment that further stimulatecancercellgrowth.
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Array painting reveals a high frequency of balanced translocations in breastcancercelllines that break in cancer-relevant genes.
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Thus, thecancercellbecomes immortal (fig001nkg).
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Thousands ofcancercelllines have been taken from patients, grown up and used, legally, to test drugs and so on.
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Nocancercellever turns into an embryo, and no embryonic cell in a test tube will ever turn into a human embryo.
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