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Stem cells, senescence, neosis and self-renewal in cancer

Rengaswami Rajaraman1 email, Duane L Guernsey2 email, Murali M Rajaraman3 email and Selva R Rajaraman4 email

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS. B3H 1X5

Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS. B3H 1X5, Canada

Nova Scotia Cancer Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, QEII Health Sciences Center, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS. B3H 1X5, Canada

Downtown Clinic, Windsor, ON, N9A 1G5, Canada

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Cancer Cell International 2006, 6:25doi:10.1186/1475-2867-6-25

Published: 8 November 2006

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Primary neosis in a tetraploid MN/PG formed by C3H10T1/2 cells on post-irradiation day 14.

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Neotic catastrophe in an MN/PG formed due to irradiation of C3H10T1/2 cells.

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Spontaneous S/T-neosis in HTB11 cells. The first half of the clip shows a Raju cell emerging from a cell lying vertical on the centre right of the frame. The second half shows the emergence of a Raju cell from the cell lying horizontal in the centre of the frame.

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Mitosis of a nascent Raju cell at the lower left of the frame.

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Raju cell maturing into tumor cell with increase in cell mass displays clonogenecity. A group of Raju cells of varying ages are increasing in cell mass and undergoing mitosis giving rise to a colony of the next generation of tumor cells at the right half of the fame.

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Spontaneous neosis in the p53-/-MEF/mgb cells.

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