Stephen Hursting, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, was senior author of a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. In the new study, researchers investigated the impact of calorie restriction on microRNAs.
Researchers have found in previous preclinical studies that calorie consumption can prevent or slow cancer’s growth. In a new study, researchers investigated the impact of calorie restriction on microRNAs.
MicroRNAs help to regulate many important processes inside cells, including some that are linked to cancer when they are improperly regulated.
The researchers identified eight microRNAs that are linked to a certain type of tumor growth. And calorie restriction significantly decreased expression of one microRNA that’ s linked to tumor growth.
By inhibiting the function of that mRNA, they were able to block cancer’s growth in several cell lines.
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