{"id":182230,"date":"2024-02-07T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-that-a-protein-associated-with-neurodegenerative-diseases-is-also-linked-to-childhood-brain-cancer"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:27:03","slug":"scientists-discover-that-a-protein-associated-with-neurodegenerative-diseases-is-also-linked-to-childhood-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-that-a-protein-associated-with-neurodegenerative-diseases-is-also-linked-to-childhood-brain-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover that a protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases is also linked to childhood brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-that-a-protein-associated-with-neurodegenerative-diseases-is-also-linked-to-childhood-brain-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A protein that has been widely studied owing to its association with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also linked to medulloblastoma, a type of central nervous system cancer. Medulloblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in children, arising from undifferentiated cells during early neural development.<\/p>\n<p>A study led by a group of Brazilian scientists has shown in vitro and in vivo that the gene VAPB is linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cell+proliferation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cell proliferation<\/a> in these tumors. An article on the study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-45319-5\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery points to a potential marker of severity and, after more research, a future therapeutic target. Medulloblastoma is currently treated with a combination of surgery to remove the tumor and radiation therapy and\/or chemotherapy, both of which are aggressive and can cause long-lasting brain damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protein that has been widely studied owing to its association with neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is also linked to medulloblastoma, a type of central nervous system cancer. Medulloblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in children, arising from undifferentiated cells during early neural development. A study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182230","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=182230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}