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There’s hope for cancer patients. A new way to kill liver cancer cells and stop tumour growth found

Loknath Das 13 Feb 2018 Health Comments Off on There’s hope for cancer patients. A new way to kill liver cancer cells and stop tumour growth found 339 Views

This research could accelerate the development of new treatments for liver cancer, which is currently difficult to cure.

Scientists have found a new way to kill liver cancer cells and inhibit tumour growth. They have developed a two-way process to achieve the goal and starve the liver cancer. The researchers explained the process as first, they silenced a key cellular enzyme, and then they added a powerful drug.

According to researchers at the University of Delaware,this research could accelerate the development of new treatments for liver cancer, which is currently difficult to cure. Often, surgery is not an option for liver cancer, and the available drugs are only modestly effective.

More than 82% of liver cancer patients die within five years of diagnosis, according to the National Institutes of Health. This project originated in labs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where researchers grew liver cancer cells and manipulated their expression of an enzyme called hexokinase-2. Then, the cells were treated with metformin, a diabetes drug that decreases glucose production in the liver.

The research group led by Maciek R. Antoniewicz designed a set of experiments to measure how cancer cells respond to the loss of hexokinase-2, an enzyme that helps cells metabolize glucose, their food source.

“The complexities of mammalian metabolism require a systems-level analysis of the underlying networks and phenotypes, and this is what my lab specializes in,” he said. The UD cohort used mass spectrometry to analyze the cancer cells and then determined intracellular metabolic fluxes for cells with and without hexokinase-2.

They suspected that cells deprived of hexokinase-2 would starve and die, but surprisingly, they found that targeting hexokinase-2 alone had only a marginal impact on stopping cancer cell growth. Another weapon, metformin, was needed to complete the job.

“The importance of our paper is that we show that targeting hexokinase-2 can indeed be a successful strategy for cancer therapy when you also target a second compensatory mechanism with the drug metformin,” said Antoniewicz.

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