Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Magnesium galvanic cells produce hydrogen and modulate the tumor microenvironment to inhibit cancer growth

  • Nailin Yang,
  • Fei Gong,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Yu Hao,
  • Yu Chao,
  • Huali Lei,
  • Xiaoyuan Yang,
  • Yuehan Gong,
  • Xianwen Wang,
  • Zhuang Liu,
  • Liang Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29938-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The production of hydrogen inside cells can stimulate cell death. Here, the authors made magnesium galvanic rods that continuously produce hydrogen and result in tumor inhibition in vitro and in vivo.