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This programme looks at reasons why cell growth may go out of control, as in cancer. One clue comes from studying growth hormones. Cancer researchers have discovered that the normal control mechani...sm may be bypassed. In a nother cancer, leukaemia, blood cell growth is out of control. Here scientists and clinicians are combining forces with spectacular success to explain and control the different types of disease.
This programme looks at reasons why cell growth may go out of control, as in cancer. One clue comes from studying growth hormones. Cancer researchers have discovered that the normal control mechani...sm may be bypassed. In a nother cancer, leukaemia, blood cell growth is out of control. Here scientists and clinicians are combining forces with spectacular success to explain and control the different types of disease.
| Module code and title: | S325, Biochemistry and cell biology |
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| Item code: | S325; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 1986 |
| Published: | 1986 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Neil Cameron |
| Contributors: | Mel Greaves; Ray Powles; Mike Waterfield |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Antibodies; Cancer; Chickens; Epidermal growth factor; Genes; Leukeamia; Monoclonal; Protein; Receptor system; Stanley Cohen |
| Master spool number: | HOU5083 |
| Production number: | FOUS370S |
| Videofinder number: | 1855 |
| Available to public: | no |
