Abstract:
:All kinds of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the mechanism of tumorigenesis. Up until now, we have not had any generally acknowledged model that helps us understand the process. In this paper, I propose a dynamic model of how tumor cells escape the supervision of the immune system; I also examine the possibility that tumorigenesis is a two-stage process. Finally, I suggest that our understanding of the molecular level of tumorigenesis be reappraised.
journal_name
Med Hypothesesjournal_title
Medical hypothesesauthors
Cai DWdoi
10.1016/0306-9877(95)90256-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-05-01 00:00:00pages
315-8issue
5eissn
0306-9877issn
1532-2777pii
0306-9877(95)90256-2journal_volume
44pub_type
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
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doi:10.1054/mehy.1998.0896
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0967
更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2013-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0306-9877(93)90068-2
更新日期:1993-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2008.07.028
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-04-24 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0306-9877(97)90091-8
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2015.09.020
更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2007.07.040
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0306-9877(98)90267-5
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0306-9877(77)90043-3
更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0016
更新日期:2000-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0306-9877(87)90058-2
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2017.12.006
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2014.10.002
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2007.10.012
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2016.05.023
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2006.11.009
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.034
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2003.12.005
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 信件
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更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in a variety of clinical settings of atherogenesis, and mediates many pathways linked to atherosclerosis and inflammation. gamma-Glutamyltransferase (GGT), an enzyme responsible for the extracellular catabolism of antioxidant glutathione, may directly take part in atherogenesis an...
journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.010
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rushton bodies (RBs) are one of the characteristic features seen in the epithelial lining of odontogenic cysts mainly radicular, dentigerous and odontogenic keratocyst. It has two different histo-morphological appearances; granular and homogeneous. Although widely investigated, the exact pathogenesis and histogenesis ...
journal_title:Medical hypotheses
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2016.06.007
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00