Not exact matches
The team found that exposing samples of
human glioblastoma tumours
grown in a dish to the Zika virus destroyed the cancer stem cells.
Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called
glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing
human tumors to
grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in
humans has been questioned.
Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual
human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life
glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't
grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.