{"id":11450,"date":"2014-09-22T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2015-03-22T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:19:30","slug":"sugar-coating-helps-determine-cancer-cell-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/sugar-coating-helps-determine-cancer-cell-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Coating Helps Determine Cancer Cell Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every living cell\u2019s surface has a protein-embedded membrane that\u2019s covered in polysaccharide chains\u2014a literal sugar coating. A new study found this coating is especially thick and pronounced on cancer cells and is a crucial determinant of the cell\u2019s survival. Consisting of long, sugar-decorated molecules called glycoproteins, the coating causes physicalchanges in the cell membrane that make the cell better able to thrive, leading to a more lethal cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Paszek, PhD, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell, and Valerie Weaver, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco, led the study on glycoprotein-induced cancer cell survival, published online in Nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysdietitian.com\/news\/090814_news.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at Today&#8217;s Dietitian&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every living cell\u2019s surface has a protein-embedded membrane that\u2019s covered in polysaccharide chains\u2014a literal sugar coating. A new study found this coating is especially thick and pronounced on cancer cells and is a crucial determinant of the cell\u2019s survival. Consisting of long, sugar-decorated molecules called glycoproteins, the coating causes physicalchanges in the cell membrane that make the cell better able to thrive, leading to a more lethal cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":6420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-cancer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}