Talk:Middle East blind mole-rat

Duplicate page
A wiki page about the Spalax also exists here: []. One could probably redirect to the other.

Jeherve (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Unsupported accusation / broken link
The following is somewhat inflammatory: "The involvement of interferon in the so-called concerted cell death of Spalax cells via necrosis was highly criticized. Serious questions have been raised on the inconsistent methodology used that led to this speculation." There is a citation following the first sentence, but the reference was a popular-press layman's article which no longer exists. It is not clear whether a description of the criticism was present in that article. The accusation is rather stale; the articles related to the interferon hypothesis are 10 years old. Meanwhile, subsequent publications have supported the hypothesis, e.g., Zhao et al. "Transposon-triggered innate immune response confers cancer resistance to the blind mole rat." (2021) Nat Immunol. 22:1219-1230. doi: 10.1038/s41590-021-01027-8. Epub 2021 Sep 23. PMID: 34556881; PMCID: PMC8488014. Neuroglider (talk) 21:27, 17 November 2022 (UTC)