Natural resistance to cancers: a Darwinian hypothesis to explain Peto’s paradox

BACKGROUND: Peto's paradox stipulates that there is no association between body mass (a surrogate of number of cells and longevity) and cancer prevalence in wildlife species. Resolving this paradox is a very promising research direction to understand mechanisms of cancer resistance. As of prese...

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Autores principales: Roche, Benjamin, Hochberg, Michael E, Caulin, Aleah F, Maley, Carlo C, Gatenby, Robert A, Misse, Dorothée, Thomas, Frédéric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-387

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-387

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