Drillers I
2000
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In a classical laboratory experiment which all first-year nanomedical students are required to perform, the simple mechanical drilling of a small tumor mass (seen in foreground) induces nonspecific adhesions of red cells and later of other cells in vitro, thus demonstrating once again the age-old wisdom of avoiding mechanical necrotic cell lysis in vivo, in favor of apoptotic or digestive mechanisms.
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