19 August 2024
Brain Tumour Fuel
Cancer cells interact with the surrounding tissue – the tumour microenvironment – receiving energy-giving molecules. Studying this metabolic exchange in mice, macrophages – large cells of the immune system – in the tissue surrounding the brain tumour glioblastoma are discovered to recycle nerves' fatty covering called myelin which then drives the tumour cells to become more aggressive; thereby revealing a potential target to attenuate the disease
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- Image from work by Daan J. Kloosterman and Johanna Erbani, and colleagues
- Division of Tumour Biology and Immunology, Oncode Institute, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Cell, August 2024
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