The possible evolutionary role of tumors in the origin of new cell types

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-185

  Kozlov, A P ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; LEGHEMOGLOBIN; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL TYPE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; LEGUME; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; RHIZOBIUM;

INVERTEBRATA; PISCES; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 70450273184     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.027     Document Type: Article

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