Flower-deficient mice have reduced susceptibility to skin papilloma formation
SUMMARY Skin papillomas arise as a result of clonal expansion of mutant cells. It has been proposed that the expansion of pretumoral cell clones is propelled not only by the increased proliferation capacity of mutant cells, but also by active cell selection. Previous studies in Drosophila describe a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2012-07-01
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Series: | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
Online Access: | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/5/4/553 |