From New Orleans, at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
A protein that removes excessive amounts of the amino acid glutamate from around nerve cells may protect a brain from tumors, according to two studies. Researchers could soon test whether drugs that increase production of this glutamate-sweeping protein stop otherwise-fatal cases of brain cancer.
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