Impersonalized Medicine
Menée sur des cellules de levure, des lignées cellulaires de divers types de cancer et des modèles murins de neuroblastome, cette étude évalue l'intérêt de plusieurs cycles de jeûne pour augmenter l'efficacité d'une chimiothérapie
Research reported in this issue of Science Translational Medicine illustrates the benefits of short-term food withdrawal (fasting) in the treatment of cancer. Fasting exploited fundamental differences in the way tumor cells and normal cells respond to stress, simultaneously strengthening normal cell function and weakening tumor cell survival in the presence of toxic doses of chemotherapeutic drugs.
Science Translational Medicine , commentaire, 2012