Synaptic proximity drives brain metastasis (IMAGE)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Synaptic proximity drives brain metastasis

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Breast cancer cells (blue) associate with glutamate-secreting neurons (red) to stimulate NMDA receptor-mediated signaling (green) of tumor growth. (STED super-resolution microscopy).

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W. Jiao and Q. Zeng (EPFL)

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