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THE following preliminary experiments show that intercellular wound hormones1, produced by living cells as a physiological response to injury2, induce local overgrowths when injected repeatedly into rats and mice.
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LOOFBOUROW, J., CUETO, A., WHALEN, D. et al. Local Growths in Animals Produced by Injection of Intercellular Wound Hormones. Nature 144, 939–940 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144939b0
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