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Shedding Light on Glioma Growth

Author(s) -

Emily K. Lehrman,

Beth Stevens

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.036

Subject(s) - biology , glioma , mechanism (biology) , neuroligin , secretion , microbiology and biotechnology , neuroscience , cell growth , brain cancer , cancer research , cancer , inhibitory postsynaptic potential , genetics , endocrinology , philosophy , excitatory postsynaptic potential , epistemology

Cancer is known for opportunistically utilizing resources from its surroundings for its own growth and survival. In this issue of Cell, Venkatesh et al. demonstrate that this also occurs in the brain, identifying neuronal activity-induced secretion of neuroligin-3 as a novel mechanism promoting glioma proliferation.

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