{"id":4443,"date":"2015-11-04T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:36:07","slug":"brain-cancer-cells-form-connected-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/brain-cancer-cells-form-connected-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain cancer cells form connected network<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microtubes connecting brain tumor cells allow a specific type of brain cancer, known as gliomas, to spread quickly and become resistant to radiation therapy, a new study shows. This knowledge will allow researchers to target for future treatment efforts. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These microtubes allow cancerous cells to reach out and form connections, allowing them to grow as a single organism. By growing as a single unit the cells became highly resistant to radiation therapy, and will remain in the brain after other types of cancerous cells have died. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers found that a certain protein is responsible for these microtubes, providing a new target that may help slow the growth and reduce the fatality of gliomas.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature16071\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in Nature<em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 4<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/10\/Sontheimer-NV-Winkler.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">accompanying commentary<\/a><\/span> was\u00a0published in Nature<em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>November 4<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Frank Winkler,\u00a0Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany<\/h4>\n<h4>Samuel Weiss, Hotchkiss Brain Institute,\u00a0Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta<\/h4>\n<h4>Harald Sontheimer,\u00a0Virginia Tech\u00a0Carilion Research Institute, Glial Biology in\u00a0Health, Disease\u00a0&amp; Cancer Center, Virginia, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microtubes connecting brain tumor cells allow a specific type of brain cancer, known as gliomas, to spread quickly and become resistant to radiation therapy, a new study shows. This knowledge will allow researchers to target for future treatment efforts. These microtubes allow cancerous cells to reach out and form connections, allowing them to grow as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,992,49,51,53],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-brain","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-19F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}