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Growth-stimulating Effects of Extracts of Normal Adult Tissues and Tumours

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IN investigations on the physiology of neoplastic growth, the conceptions are often encountered that the malignant cell has an unusually high growth capacity as compared with the normal cell, and that neoplastic tissue is especially rich in growth-promoting factors.

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HOFFMAN, R., TENENBAUM, E. & DOLJANSKI, L. Growth-stimulating Effects of Extracts of Normal Adult Tissues and Tumours. Nature 144, 1092–1093 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441092a0

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