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| | Enzyme deficiency may contribute to liver cancer, Mount Sinai research indicates |
 | | (Toronto, Ontario, July 27, 2005) — Primary liver cancer is much more likely to take root when a naturally occurring enzyme is in short supply, a team of researchers has found at Mount Sinai Hospital's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. |
 | | Using a knockout mouse model, the team has found that the likelihood of hepatoma, or primary liver cancer, increases substantially when half the normal amount of an enzyme called Plk4 is present. |
 | | Swallow and her co-investigators, Dr. Jim Dennis, Senior Investigator at the SLRI, and Mike Ko, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, believe that this finding has important implications for screening and early detection. |
| www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-07/uot-edm072705.php (443 words) |
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