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Growth of Malignant Non-CNS Tumors Alters Brain Metabolome

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Genetics, February 2018
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Title
Growth of Malignant Non-CNS Tumors Alters Brain Metabolome
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Frontiers in Genetics, February 2018
DOI 10.3389/fgene.2018.00041
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Anna Kovalchuk, Lilit Nersisyan, Rupasri Mandal, David Wishart, Maria Mancini, David Sidransky, Bryan Kolb, Olga Kovalchuk

Abstract

Cancer survivors experience numerous treatment side effects that negatively affect their quality of life. Cognitive side effects are especially insidious, as they affect memory, cognition, and learning. Neurocognitive deficits occur prior to cancer treatment, arising even before cancer diagnosis, and we refer to them as "tumor brain." Metabolomics is a new area of research that focuses on metabolome profiles and provides important mechanistic insights into various human diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and aging. Many neurological diseases and conditions affect metabolic processes in the brain. However, the tumor brain metabolome has never been analyzed. In our study we used direct flow injection/mass spectrometry (DI-MS) analysis to establish the effects of the growth of lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and sarcoma on the brain metabolome of TumorGraft™ mice. We found that the growth of malignant non-CNS tumors impacted metabolic processes in the brain, affecting protein biosynthesis, and amino acid and sphingolipid metabolism. The observed metabolic changes were similar to those reported for neurodegenerative diseases and brain aging, and may have potential mechanistic value for future analysis of the tumor brain phenomenon.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 21%
Student > Bachelor 2 14%
Student > Master 2 14%
Professor 1 7%
Researcher 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 29%
Psychology 2 14%
Engineering 2 14%
Chemistry 1 7%
Computer Science 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2018.
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#13,345,489
of 23,023,224 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Genetics
#3,003
of 12,073 outputs
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#166,689
of 331,055 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Genetics
#51
of 123 outputs
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