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Antidepressants have an interesting effect on brain cancer

Antidepressants have an interesting effect on brain cancer
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Matt Davis
September 25, 2015

Ever since 2000 researchers have tried to find if antidepressants have some effects on brain tumors and now a Swiss team seems to have truly discovered it. There were some assumptions that the drug lowers the risk of developing glioblastomas, an aggressive type o brain cancer, but conclusive effects have not been found.

Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology haven’t given up on finding an easy and non-toxic treatment for these very aggressive types of brain cancer and started trying out various drug combinations on mice. They knew that anticoagulants or blood thinners have an interesting effect on cancer cells, they make cells eat themselves, a process called autophagy. Apparently tricyclic antidepressants have a similar effect on cancer cells, but by disrupting the normal cycle of the cancer cell in a different kind of way.

Basically, scientists knew that both drugs had the same effect on particular brain cancer cells, but they affected the cells differently. By using this knowledge, researchers decided to combine the two drugs and see if a significant effect exists. The drugs don’t interfere with each other, they seem to have a synergic effect. Antidepressants and anticoagulants work together and cause a disruption in the cancer cells life cycle that stimulates them to destroy themselves.

As a conclusion, the mice were not cured, they still died with glioblastomas, but their lifespan was doubled. Also, treating them with only antidepressants or blood thinners had no significant effect, improvement appeared in mice who were treated with the combination of the two drugs. Scientists don’t consider this a breakthrough in curing glioblastomas, but it gives hope for patients diagnosed in early stages, because it might just delay the development of the brain cancer enough to start an early and effective treatment.

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Who doesn’t enjoy listening to a good story. Personally I love reading about the people who inspire me and what it took for them to achieve their success. As I am a bit of a self confessed tech geek I think there is no better way to discover these stories than by reading every day some articles or the newspaper . My bookcases are filled with good tech biographies, they remind me that anyone can be a success. So even if you come from an underprivileged part of society or you aren’t the smartest person in the room we all have a chance to reach the top. The same message shines in my beliefs. All it takes to succeed is a good idea, a little risk and a lot of hard work and any geek can become a success. VENI VIDI VICI .

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