Gliomas exploit immune cells of the brain for rapid expansion

Gliomas are among the most common and most malignant brain tumours. These tumours infiltrate normal brain tissue and grow very rapidly. As a result, surgery can never completely remove the tumour. Now, the neurosurgeons Dr Darko S. Markovic (Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch) and Dr Michael Synowitz (Charite) as well as Dr Rainer Glass and Professor Helmut Kettenmann (both Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine, MDC, Berlin-Buch), have been able to show that glioma cells exploit microglia, the immune cells of the brain, for their expansion...

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