Friendly neighbours feed tumour cells

Jurre J. Kamphorst () and Eyal Gottlieb ()
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Jurre J. Kamphorst: Jurre J. Kamphorst and Eyal Gottlieb are in the Cancer Metabolism Research Unit, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
Eyal Gottlieb: Jurre J. Kamphorst and Eyal Gottlieb are in the Cancer Metabolism Research Unit, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.

Nature, 2016, vol. 536, issue 7617, 401-402

Abstract: In pancreatic cancer, neighbouring non-cancerous cells degrade their own proteins through a process called autophagy and release amino acids that are then taken up and used by the cancer cells. See Letter p.479

Date: 2016
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