{"id":235162,"date":"2026-04-14T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nociceptive-neurons-protect-cancer-cells-against-oxidative-stress"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:09:06","slug":"nociceptive-neurons-protect-cancer-cells-against-oxidative-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nociceptive-neurons-protect-cancer-cells-against-oxidative-stress","title":{"rendered":"Nociceptive neurons protect cancer cells against oxidative stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nociceptive-neurons-protect-cancer-cells-against-oxidative-stress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How cancer cells exploit the tumor microenvironment to alleviate oxidative stress remains largely unclear. Zhang et al. find that nociceptive neurons, via secretion of EREG, protect HNSCC against oxidative stress-induced cell death. Targeting nociceptive neurons improves the therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapies, including cisplatin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cancer cells exploit the tumor microenvironment to alleviate oxidative stress remains largely unclear. Zhang et al. find that nociceptive neurons, via secretion of EREG, protect HNSCC against oxidative stress-induced cell death. Targeting nociceptive neurons improves the therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapies, including cisplatin.<\/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-235162","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\/235162","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=235162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}