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Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine
The ability of certain tumor cells of mammals and molluscs to spread from the original host to others reopens the question of distinguishing self from non-self. It is part of a wider phenomenon of cellular parasitism and cell chimerism including germ cells.
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6190548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30322384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0582-8 |
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| author | Weiss, Robin A. |
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| description | The ability of certain tumor cells of mammals and molluscs to spread from the original host to others reopens the question of distinguishing self from non-self. It is part of a wider phenomenon of cellular parasitism and cell chimerism including germ cells. |
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| spelling | pubmed-61905482018-10-23 Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine Weiss, Robin A. BMC Biol Comment The ability of certain tumor cells of mammals and molluscs to spread from the original host to others reopens the question of distinguishing self from non-self. It is part of a wider phenomenon of cellular parasitism and cell chimerism including germ cells. BioMed Central 2018-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6190548/ /pubmed/30322384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0582-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| spellingShingle | Comment Weiss, Robin A. Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine |
| title | Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine |
| title_short | Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine |
| title_sort | open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6190548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30322384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0582-8 |
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