Research topic
Functional synaptic inputs reach subsets of glioma cells without turning them into neurons.
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Research at the intersection of neurodevelopment, glioma biology, neural activity, tumor microenvironment signaling, cancer neuroscience, and mechanism-guided therapies.
9 lessons · ~50 minutes
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Cancer as a Neural Circuit Disease
Cancer cells join neural circuitsSeparate functional synaptic evidence from cell identity.
Supports: Neuron-to-glioma synapses
Nature · 2019
Venkatesh HS, Morishita W, Geraghty AC, et al., Monje M
Why this matters: Combines synaptic structure and functional electrical recordings in subsets of tumor cells.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1563-y