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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, U.S.

Researchers from the United States provide details of new studies and findings in the area of brain cancer

Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, July 15th, 2006

New findings from the United States describe advances in brain cancer.

Study 1: Brain cancer tumorigenesis could be inhibited by schwannomin.

"The neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) tumor suppressor protein, schwannomin or merlin, is commonly lost upon NF2 gene mutation in benign human brain tumors. We identified the p110 subunit of the eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3c) as a schwannomin interacting protein," investigators in the United States reported.

"The eIF3 complex consists of approximately 10 subunits whose functions are only recently becoming known. Interaction between schwannomin and eIF3c suggests a role for schwannomin in...

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