Constraint on the stem cell numbers and division rates posed by the risk of cancer
Compiled data for the stem cell numbers, Ns, and division rates, ms, is reanalized in order to show that we can distinguish two groups of human tissues. In the first one, there is a relatively high fraction of maintenance (stem and transit) cells in the tissue, but the division rates are low. The second group, on the other hand, is characterized by very high transit cell division rates, of around one division per day. These groups do not have an embrionary origin. We argue that their properties arise from a combination of the needs of tissue homeostasis (in particular turnover rate) and a bound on cancer risk, which is roughly a linear function of the product Ns ms. The bound on cancer risk leads to a threshold at ms = 8/year, where the fraction of stem cells falls down two orders of magnitude.
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