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Date:7/1/2008

hy cells can. When the ER is stressed in this way, the result is an unfolded protein response which overloads the system and shorts out the cancer cell. This prevents tumor development, growth and invasion and ultimately the cancer cell dies," said Paul B. Fisher, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, in the VCU School of Medicine.

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Contact: Anne Buckley albuckley@vcu.edu 804-828-6052 Virginia Commonwealth University Source:Eurekalert

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