{"id":169312,"date":"2023-08-09T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/electrical-signals-between-skin-cells-may-influence-melanoma-initiation"},"modified":"2023-08-09T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T07:22:22","slug":"electrical-signals-between-skin-cells-may-influence-melanoma-initiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/electrical-signals-between-skin-cells-may-influence-melanoma-initiation","title":{"rendered":"Electrical signals between skin cells may influence melanoma initiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-signals-between-skin-cells-may-influence-melanoma-initiation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transfer of a neurotransmitter from one type of skin cell to another (melanocytes to keratinocytes) altered electrical activity and promoted melanoma initiation in preclinical models, according to results published in <i>Cancer Discovery<\/i>, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.<\/p>\n<p>Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that develops in melanin-containing skin cells known as melanocytes. An intrinsic feature of melanocytes is their ability to secrete melanin-containing vesicles to surrounding skin cells called keratinocytes to give skin its color.<\/p>\n<p>While approximately half of all melanomas harbor mutations in the BRAF gene, these mutations are present in many benign skin lesions as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transfer of a neurotransmitter from one type of skin cell to another (melanocytes to keratinocytes) altered electrical activity and promoted melanoma initiation in preclinical models, according to results published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that develops in melanin-containing skin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}