Partners in the Warburg effect

Elife. 2016 Apr 13:5:e15938. doi: 10.7554/eLife.15938.

Abstract

Cells that surround tumors produce vesicles that supply nutrients to cancer cells and, more surprisingly, also impair the generation of energy in these cancer cells.

Keywords: cancer metabolism; cell biology; exosomes; human; human biology; macropinocytosis; medicine; metabolic flux analysis; reductive carboxylation; tumor microenvironment.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Neoplasms*