Researches Into Induced Cell-Repro-Duction in Amoebæ, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The experiments described in the following papers were begun in January 1913, and they form part of the general researches of the J ohn Howard mcfadden Research Fund into the causation of cancer and other forms of cell-proliferation. These researches have already been described in detail in the preceding volumes. They include a working hypothesis that normal cell reproduction and benign tumours are caused by certain chemical agents, called auxetics, such as tyrosin, creatin, etc.; and that cancerous tumours are caused by a mixture of auxetics With another group of sub stances, called kinetics or augmentors, such as choline and cadaverine. Auxetics are produced in the body by cell-death as the result of injury; kinetics are decomposition products produced by the action of bacteria and other organisms. The former volumes contain many experiments made in the endeavour to prove this hypothesis, but those experiments were mostly made With human and other animal cells; in the present volume, how.

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