Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

An intrinsic tumour eviction mechanism in Drosophila mediated by steroid hormone signalling

  • Yanrui Jiang,
  • Makiko Seimiya,
  • Tommy Beat Schlumpf,
  • Renato Paro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05794-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Drosophila is an excellent model to study both development and tumorigenesis. Here the authors uncover an innate mechanism for a steroid hormone-induced block to tumorigenesis during metamorphosis of Drosophila.