Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Using arterial–venous analysis to characterize cancer metabolic consumption in patients

  • Nanxiang Xiong,
  • Xiaofei Gao,
  • Hongyang Zhao,
  • Feng Cai,
  • Fang-cheng Zhang,
  • Ye Yuan,
  • Weichao Liu,
  • Fangping He,
  • Lauren G. Zacharias,
  • Hong Lin,
  • Hieu S. Vu,
  • Chao Xing,
  • Dong-Xiao Yao,
  • Fei Chen,
  • Benyan Luo,
  • Wenzhi Sun,
  • Ralph J. DeBerardinis,
  • Hao Xu,
  • Woo-ping Ge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16810-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Cellular metabolism is altered in many cancer types and the advent of metabolomics has allowed us to understand more about how this is dysregulated. Here, the authors report a method named CARVE to analyse the arterial supply and venous drainage of glioma patients during surgery and identify the metabolites that may be consumed and produced by the cancer.