Compound that blocks sugar pathway slows cancer cell growth

Friday, November 19, 2010 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have identified a compound that could be used to starve cancers of their sugar-based building blocks. The compound, called a glutaminase inhibitor, has been tested on laboratory-cultured, sugar-hungry brain cancer cells and, the scientists say, may have the potential to be used for many types of primary brain tumours...

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