Study: Jawless fish may hold key to effective brain cancer treatment

They also linked the molecules to a chemotherapy called doxorubicin. The treatment prolonged survival in mouse models of glioblastoma, an incurable cancer. "This could be a way to hold therapies in place that don't otherwise accumulate well in the brain so they can be more effective," said Ben Umlauf from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"There are several disease processes that disrupt the blood-brain barrier and we could conceive of delivering a variety of different therapies with these molecules," said John Kuo from the University of Texas in the US.

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