The Scientist : Glutamate fuels brain tumor growth [4/9/2001]

Glutamate released from glioma cells promotes growth of malignant gliomas.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010904-03

4 September 2001

Glutamate is one of the principal neurotransmitters in the brain, but in excess can be highly neurotoxic. In September Nature Medicine Takahiro Takano and colleagues from the New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, show that in addition to being neurotoxic, glutamate release from glioma cells also promotes growth of malignant gliomas.

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