Intercellular signaling in cancer-the SMT and TOFT hypotheses, exosomes, telocytes and metastases: Is the messenger in the message?

Journal of Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 604-609

  Smythies, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric fields; Cancer; Evolution; Exosomes; Metastases; Metastatic niche; Non linear dynamics; Oncosomes; SMT; Telocytes; TOFT

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; SOMATIC MUTATION THEORY; TARGET ORGAN; TELOCYTE; TISSUE ORGANIZATION FIELD THEORY;

EID: 84938380789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18379664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/jca.12372     Document Type: Review

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