Cancer is the uncontrolled division of cells. This is caused by the mutation of the DNA in these cells, resulting in rapid and uncontrolled cellular division. My question is: Once these cells mutate and divide, do they retain the surface cell proteins of the original, healthy cells, or do the surface cells change in the mutation?
I have become interested in this topic, but Google, Wikipedia, and Yahoo! don't seem to be helping me out.
2007-03-12 10:58:01 · 2 answers · asked by paintkoop88 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
You may find info. on this by going to the original research in this field. Use Pubmed to access Medline and search the world's research literature.
Best wishes.
P.S. I just did a search on Pubmed using "cell surface proteins cancer". There were 116,745 papers listed. Have fun!
2007-03-12 17:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can check out this research site ,,,,they have a message board and sometimes answer back within a few hours ......................http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
2007-03-16 15:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by ihatesnowihatesnowihatesnow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋