Scientists have learned how to "kick out" the cancer cells of the human brain

Created nanofibers that allow "kick out" the cancer cells of glioblastoma brain and prevent them to spread further.

Experts from the US created nanofibers, with which you can "kick out" cancer glioblastoma cells from the brain and prevent their further spread.

We have created nanofibers that mimic the structure of nerve endings and blood vessels that cancer cells of the brain used for migrations. Glioblastoma Cells typically attach to this natural "rails", and go on their surface. Providing them with the other "route", we have learned to manipulate their movement.

- Ravi Bellamkonda Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA)

This discovery was made by accident. Originally Bellamkonda and his colleagues were planning to create tools that would restored connections between neurons of the spinal cord after spinal injuries. In this study, the researchers noticed that the signaling pathways that they were trying to stimulate fusion chains of neurons used by cancer cells of glioblastoma dangerous forms for distribution to the brain. Then the experts thought that they have created "guides nanofibers" can help deter and destroy glioblastoma.

Glioblastoma - is the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumor, which is up to 52% of primary brain tumors and 20% of all intracranial tumors. Despite the fact that glioblastoma is the most common primary brain tumor, 100,000 people in Europe and North America all recorded cases of 2-3.

Scientists decided that "comfortable" rails will stimulate cancer cells to move on them, ignoring other ways of "migration". So, according to experts, can be collected and disposed of them in a special gel in a controlled environment. The study was performed on several rat experiment to test this method of treatment of cancer. As a result of the growth of glioblastoma in the experimental rats were either suspended or glioblastoma significantly decreased after 18 days after surgery.

These fibers are a kind of "trigger valve" for cancer that can help us save people from neoperiruemymi tumors that can live for decades because their tumors stop growing. It is possible that in this case the cancer becomes a medical problem of the same caliber as diabetes or high blood pressure.