{"id":31879,"date":"2016-11-12T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/immune-cells-may-facilitate-tumor-growth"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:21:19","slug":"immune-cells-may-facilitate-tumor-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/immune-cells-may-facilitate-tumor-growth","title":{"rendered":"Immune cells may facilitate tumor growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-cells-may-facilitate-tumor-growth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new avenue of research opens up for cancer and potential therapies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggests there may be a way to limit tumor growth by targeting immune system cells called macrophages.<\/p>\n<p>The research reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/macrophages\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">macrophages<\/a> can \u201cdrill\u201d through tumors to create new vessel-like structures for delivering oxygen and nutrients as tumors grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may represent a whole new therapeutic target for treating tumors,\u201d said TSRI Professor Martin Friedlander, senior author of the new study, which was published November 11 in the journal <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-11-immune-cells-tumor-growth-primitive.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;11-immune-cells-tumor...itive.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new avenue of research opens up for cancer and potential therapies. A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggests there may be a way to limit tumor growth by targeting immune system cells called macrophages. The research reveals that macrophages can \u201cdrill\u201d through tumors to create new vessel-like structures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49605,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879\/revisions\/49605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}