Cancer and neurodegeneration: between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Cancer and neurodegeneration are often thought of as disease mechanisms at opposite ends of a spectrum; one due to enhanced resistance to cell death and the other due to premature cell death. There is now accumulating evidence to link these two disparate processes. An increasing number of genetic st...

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Main Authors: Hélène Plun-Favreau, Patrick A Lewis, John Hardy, L Miguel Martins, Nicholas W Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3009676?pdf=render