A Common Vitamin May Reprogram Immune Cells to Fight Aggressive Brain Tumors (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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A Common Vitamin May Reprogram Immune Cells to Fight Aggressive Brain Tumors (3 of 4)

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In mice where glioblastoma brain tumor stem cells are growing in their head as evident through MRI, and where mice will eventually die from brain tumor load, the treatment of these mice with niacin suppresses brain tumor growth and increases the lifespan of mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 1, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Sarkar at University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, Canada; and colleagues was titled, "Control of brain tumor growth by reactivating myeloid cells with niacin."

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[Credit: Sarkar <i>et al</i>.]

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