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01-27-2017, 11:39 AM
Technique for Blocking Capillaries to Starve and Suffocate Tumors
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Researchers from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the East China **rmal University have reported in journal Nature Na**tech**logy on a new technique of*blocking cappilaries that feed oxygen and nutrients to tumors, essentially suffocating and starving them at the same time. The researchers developed na**particles made of polymer-modified magnesium silicide (Mg2Si). When these find themselves within the acidity of tumors, they react and the magnesium silicide produces silane. Silane is a deoxygenation agent, an oxygen scavenger that reacts with oxygen in blood and tissues to produce clumps of silicon oxide. These clumps get large e**ugh and tough e**ugh to block capillaries, blocking a tumor’s access to what it needs to survive.
This has only been tested in a laboratory environment, but the idea sounds **vel and promising, and we look forward to seeing it develop along a path toward clinical trials.
Study in Nature Na**tech**logy:*Magnesium silicide na**particles as a deoxygenation agent for cancer starvation therapy… (http://www.nature.com/nna**/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nna**.2016.280.html)
(hat tip: PhysOrg (https://phys.org/news/2017-01-na**particles-good-tumor-deoxygenation-agent.html))
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Researchers from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the East China **rmal University have reported in journal Nature Na**tech**logy on a new technique of*blocking cappilaries that feed oxygen and nutrients to tumors, essentially suffocating and starving them at the same time. The researchers developed na**particles made of polymer-modified magnesium silicide (Mg2Si). When these find themselves within the acidity of tumors, they react and the magnesium silicide produces silane. Silane is a deoxygenation agent, an oxygen scavenger that reacts with oxygen in blood and tissues to produce clumps of silicon oxide. These clumps get large e**ugh and tough e**ugh to block capillaries, blocking a tumor’s access to what it needs to survive.
This has only been tested in a laboratory environment, but the idea sounds **vel and promising, and we look forward to seeing it develop along a path toward clinical trials.
Study in Nature Na**tech**logy:*Magnesium silicide na**particles as a deoxygenation agent for cancer starvation therapy… (http://www.nature.com/nna**/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nna**.2016.280.html)
(hat tip: PhysOrg (https://phys.org/news/2017-01-na**particles-good-tumor-deoxygenation-agent.html))
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