Mitochondria as cancer support
2005/03/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered how mitochondria gene mutations contribute to tumor extension.
Mitochondria contains genes that remove the tumor or at least maintain it. That was already known and what mutations of these genes cause tumors, but the mechanism was not known.
Well, these researchers from Glasgow have studied the influence of the mutation of one of the suppressor genes, the gene encoding SDH, succinate dehigrogenase. And they have found that in metabolism a chain of reactions occurs that increases the number of blood vessels. Inevitably through these vessels the spread of cancer is facilitated.
