China News Service, Beijing, November 11 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The internationally renowned academic journal "Nature" recently published a cancer research paper saying that a study completed by researchers found that high concentrations of exposure to a dietary fatty acid contained in palm oil It promotes the metastasis of oral cancer and skin cancer cells in mice
The paper introduced that fatty acid intake and metabolic changes have always been thought to be related to cancer metastasis, which refers to the process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body
Corresponding author of the paper, Salvador Benitah (Salvador Benitah) of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain, and colleagues collaborated on the research, first exposing human oral cancer and skin cancer cells to three dietary fatty acids-palmitic acid (palm oil) The main saturated fatty acids), oleic acid or linoleic acid, the exposure time is 4 days, and then these cells are transplanted into the corresponding tissues of mice fed a standard diet
The author of the paper pointed out that metastasis-promoting cancer cells also retain the "memory" of exposure to high concentrations of palmitic acid
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