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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Src's role in spreading cancer

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020806-03

Published

6 August 2002

Src is a protein kinase found at elevated levels in pre-malignant colorectal tissues but its precise role in the development and progression of cancer remains unclear. In August Nature Cell Biology Egle Avizienyte and colleagues at The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK, show that increased levels of Src may contribute to colon cancer cell spread in multiple, but interdependent ways, through its effects on cellular adhesions (Nat Cell Biol 2002, 4:632-6380.

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