title: Cancer basic protein: a cellular growth factor in cancer cells?
abstract: Cancer basic protein possesses amazingly similar, but not identical, properties to myelin basic protein. Because of these similarities a theory is presented that cancer basic protein is a cellular growth factor and is intricately involved in the abnormal growth processes occurring in cancer cells.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000502:physiology*; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D004676:Myelin Basic Protein / Q000502:physiology; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D013936:Thymidine / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D006133:Growth Substances; D004676:Myelin Basic Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; C029664:cancer basic protein, human; D005346:Fibroblast Growth Factors; D004247:DNA; D013936:Thymidine