In 2015, her lab published a paper in Cell (DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2015.04.012) that found that both adult and
pediatric glioma cells grew faster when adjacent to highly active neurons.
Not exact matches
«This is exciting because it's the first animal model of
pediatric high - grade
gliomas, or malignant brain tumors,» says Maria Castro, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and a professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and
Cell and Developmental Biology at U-M.
U-M's internationally renowned Translational Neuro - Oncology Laboratory generates novel primary
cell cultures from
pediatric and adult
glioma tissue samples to study mechanisms of
glioma growth and targeted treatment response.