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ArticleBreast cancer research : BCR2011

Chasing the immortal strand: evidence for nature's way of protecting the breast genome.

Nikolajs Zeps, Christine Hemmings

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Article in Breast cancer research : BCR, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Strategies to Prevent "Bad Luck" in Cancer.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nikolajs Zeps
Christine Hemmings

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations arise during cell division at a predictable rate. Besides DNA repair mechanisms, the existence of cellular hierarchies that originate with a stem cell serve to reduce the number of divisions necessary for normal physiology. In a previous issue, Bussard and colleagues demonstrate that mammary stem cells have an additional remarkable trait; namely the ability to selectively retain a template DNA strand during self renewal. In doing so, they avoid the accumulation of mutations in that so called 'immortal strand'. The implications of this are discussed with reference to the development and treatment of cancer.

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DNA ReplicationAnimalsAsymmetric Cell DivisionDNAEpithelial CellsFemaleMammary Glands, AnimalPregnancyDNA

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PMID21349144
PMCPMC3109559

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