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Hepatocyte proliferation in stepwise development of experimental liver cell cancer

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Cell proliferation is the most central and key phenotypic property of cancer including hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatocyte proliferation is central not only at the late steps in carcinogenesis, the cancer, but at the earliest known step, initiation. Compensatory or regenerative hepatocyte proliferation is essential to initiation with chemical carcinogens but primary hyperplasia is ineffective. During promotion, hepatocyte proliferation is the major change seen as clonal proliferation to generate nodules occurs. During progression, autonomous hepatocyte proliferation balanced by cell loss makes its appearance. This continues in a balanced fashion with only a slight excess of proliferation over loss until the earlier steps in malignancy at which time the balance is disrupted.

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  1. Department of Pathology Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto, M5S 1A8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Emmanuel Farber MD, PhD, FRSC

  2. Department of Biochemistry Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto, M5S 1A8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Emmanuel Farber MD, PhD, FRSC

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Research supproted by research grants from the National Cancer Institute of Canada and the Medical Research Council of Canada (MT-5994).

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Farber, E. Hepatocyte proliferation in stepwise development of experimental liver cell cancer. Digest Dis Sci 36, 973–978 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01297150

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