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Comment
. 2010 Jul 13;8(7):e1000423.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000423.

How normal cells can win the battle for survival against cancer cells

William Mair  1
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How normal cells can win the battle for survival against cancer cells

William Mair. PLoS Biol. .
No abstract available

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The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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Mahjong-defective cells (green) are out-competed by the adjacent normal cells and become apoptotic (red) both in Drosophila imaginal epithelia (left panel) and mammalian cultured epithelial cells (right panel).
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  • Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition.
    Tamori Y, Bialucha CU, Tian AG, Kajita M, Huang YC, Norman M, Harrison N, Poulton J, Ivanovitch K, Disch L, Liu T, Deng WM, Fujita Y. Tamori Y, et al. PLoS Biol. 2010 Jul 13;8(7):e1000422. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000422. PLoS Biol. 2010. PMID: 20644714 Free PMC article.