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Early Development and Neoplasia

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Signaling and the Cytoskeleton

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Most of the studies cited in earlier chapters deal with molecular mechanisms of basic cellular processes of relatively homogeneous cell populations. Much of what is significant in biomedical science is concerned with complex, organized cell mixtures: tissues and organs. Thus, it is important to see how the principles we have previously defined apply to such systems. To address some of the questions involved in more complex systems, we have chosen to briefly discuss two topics, early development and neoplasia. In our view these represent two important aspects of multicellularity:

  1. 1)

    the initial and presumably simplest form of the organization of cells; and

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    the failure or reversal of the normal organization.

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Carraway, K.L., Carraway, C.A.C., Carraway, K.L. (1998). Early Development and Neoplasia. In: Signaling and the Cytoskeleton. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12993-7_7

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