Autonomic nervous system activity and the implications on breast cancer metastasis

Abstract

Chronic neural recordings within the 4T1 mouse tumor model have identified two distinct days where there is high neural activity during the growth of the tumor. The first day occurs approximately 4 days before metastasis and the second day occurs primarily on the day of metastasis. Furthermore, preliminary data in vagotomized mice with 4T1 tumors (n=2), all recorded neural activity within the tumor is eliminated and metastasis occurs approximately six days earlier compared to mice with intact vagus nerves. Additional experiments are ongoing to substantiate this result.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1090539

Entities

People

  • Dominique M Durand
  • Efstathios Karathanasis
  • Grant A. McCallum
  • Jennifer Yu

Organizations

  • Case Western Reserve University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Biomedical Research
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Cost Reductions
  • Electric Stimulation Therapy
  • Materials
  • Medical Personnel
  • Metastasis
  • Neoplasms
  • Nerves
  • Nervous System
  • Students
  • Vagus Nerve

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  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology