Research topic
Glioma synapses can recruit adaptive plasticity mechanisms in tested preclinical settings.
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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: Synaptic plasticity
Nature · 2023
Taylor KR, Barron T, Hui A, et al., Monje M
Why this matters: Shows preclinical recruitment of BDNF-TrkB and receptor-trafficking mechanisms.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06678-1