Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a tumor intermediate in character between a fibroma and a sarcoma.
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- noun oncology A
fibroblastic sarcoma : a malignanttumor derived from fibrousconnective tissue
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the sermon at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Miller spoke about developing anaplastic high-grade fibrosarcoma at the age of 16.
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Pretty and well-liked, Astra Dell develops “anaplastic high-grade fibrosarcoma,” a rare connective-tissue cancer, at the start of her senior year of high school.
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If you paste “anaplastic high-grade fibrosarcoma” into a browser window, Google returns only one result, which involves the Unitarian minister Alison Miller, whom Schutt credits with inspiring this book.
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Wavelength dependence and dose-rate independence of UV radiation-induced immunologic unresponsiveness of mice to a UV-induced fibrosarcoma.
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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HIF-1α-deficient fibrosarcoma cells (HT1080) displayed significantly enhanced sensitivity towards etoposide under ambient air, colon cancer (HCT116) and hepatoma (Hepa-1) cells failed to do so
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nadine Rohwer et al. 2010
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MiaPaCa-2 (human pancreatic cancer cell line), HT1080 (human fibrosarcoma cell line), FaDu
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donald Courter et al. 2010
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Sorafenib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor which inhibits not only the VEGF/PDGF receptors, but also the enzyme RAF (rapidly growing fibrosarcoma) kinase, a critical component of the RAF signaling pathway that controls cell division and proliferation.
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Mouse fibrosarcoma WEHI 164 clone 13 (established by Rollinghoff and N.L. Warner) and COS-7 cells (established by Y. Gluzman) were gifts from T. Boon (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brussels, Belgium).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Virginie Renaud et al. 2010
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Sorafenib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor which inhibits not only the VEGF/PDGF receptors, but also the enzyme RAF (rapidly growing fibrosarcoma) kinase, a critical component of the RAF signaling pathway that controls cell division and proliferation.
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Song B, Liu Y, Wei L, et al. (2008) Effects of lentivirus-mediated HIF-1alpha knockdown on hypoxia-related cisplatin resistance and their dependence on p53 status in fibrosarcoma cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nadine Rohwer et al. 2010
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