Relationship between tumor cell invasiveness and polyploidization.

A number of studies have shown that tumor cells fuse with other tumor and non-tumor cells. In the present study on tumor cell lines derived from glioblastoma, breast cancer, and melanoma, we estimated the frequency of fusion between tumor cells by establishing the fraction of cells with whole tumor-...

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Main Authors: Javier Mercapide, Fabio Anzanello, Germana Rappa, Aurelio Lorico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3534062?pdf=render