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Article Dans Une Revue Medical Hypotheses Année : 2012

Biodiversity as a barrier to glioma cell invasion.

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Gliomas are extremely aggressive and lethal forms of brain cancer. Unlike many other cancer types, glioma cells rarely metastasize. They spread throughout the brain and invasiveness of glioma cells is a major cause of therapeutic failure. In plant ecosystem, biodiversity acts locally as a barrier to ecological invasion. By analogy, we hypothesize that the low cell diversity of differentiated tissues, a counterpart of their functional specificity, opens the way to local cancer cell invasion. Seeding the brain tumor microenvironment with heterogeneous cell populations could be a mean to limit cancer cell invasion by enhancing cell biodiversity.
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inserm-00733968 , version 1 (20-09-2012)

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Laurent Selek, Franck Mauconduit, Marie-France Nissou, Guillaume Nugue, Hana Lahrech, et al.. Biodiversity as a barrier to glioma cell invasion.. Medical Hypotheses, 2012, 78 (4), pp.459-61. ⟨10.1016/j.mehy.2012.01.005⟩. ⟨inserm-00733968⟩

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