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Restoration of Normal Growth by Covering of Agglutinin Sites on Tumour Cell Surface

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By covering sites on transformed cells with monovalent concanavalin A, the growth pattern of transformed fibroblasts is restored to that of normal cells. The process can, moreover, be reversed.

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    MAX M. BURGER & KENNETH D. NOONAN

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BURGER, M., NOONAN, K. Restoration of Normal Growth by Covering of Agglutinin Sites on Tumour Cell Surface. Nature 228, 512–515 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228512a0

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