Restoring Mitochondrial Quantity and Quality to Reverse Warburg Effect and Drive Tumor Differentiation
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Genome-scale metabolic modeling elucidates the role of proliferative adaptation in causing the Warburg effect.
Shlomi T, Benyamini T, Gottlieb E, Sharan R, Ruppin E
PLoS Computational Biology. 2011; 7(3):e1002018
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