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A hypothesis has been put forward according to which destructive processes occurring in the body during senescence and in oncogenesis are regulated by an atavistic mechanism of apical dominance described by plant physiologists. This mechanism is inherited from the first on Earth metazoans that behaved the mode of life attached to benthos and to underwater objects and were modular.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Makrushin, 2013, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 239–241.
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Makrushin, A.V. Regulation of destructive processes occurring in the body during senescence and in oncogenesis: A hypothesis. J Evol Biochem Phys 49, 373–375 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093013030146
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