In addition, workers exposed to 46 °C heat also exhibited Acks expression
patterns similar to those observed in the brains
of workers involved in the formation
of a hot defensive bee ball, suggesting that the
neural activity observed in the brains
of workers involved in the hot defensive bee ball mainly reflects thermal stimuli processing.
The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a
pattern of gene
activity similar to that now identified in these
neural stem cells.