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SUBMITTER: You S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5011773 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
You Sixian S Tu Haohua H Zhao Youbo Y Liu Yuan Y Chaney Eric J EJ Marjanovic Marina M Boppart Stephen A SA
Scientific reports 20160906
Fatty acids play essential roles in the growth and metastasis of cancer cells. To facilitate their avid growth and proliferation, cancer cells not only alter the fatty acid synthesis and metabolism intracellularly and extracellularly, but also in the macroenvironment via direct or indirect pathways. We report here, using Raman micro-spectroscopy, that an increase in the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) was identified in both cancerous and normal appearing breast tissue obtained ...[more]