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1The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Building, Chester Beatty Laboratories, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|March 9, 2016
Abstract:
New work in Drosophila has identified a link between dying cells and compensatory proliferation of neighbouring survivor cells. Activation of initiator caspases in the dying cells stimulates the production of hydrogen peroxide, which orchestrates tissue repair via macrophages and TNF signalling.