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Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

185 points · 227 comments · lormayna

gkhartman · 1790275330 · focus · HN ↗
...in mice.
1. embedding-shape · 1790275371 · focus · HN ↗
  Imagine how healthy mice in general could live, if they were able to read all these research papers about themselves.
  1. zafka · 1790276005 · focus · HN ↗
    Now I am imagining a 501-C where school children are encouraged to read studies to mice. Children get better at reading technical papers, mice learn more about their options! Win Win!
  2. rzzzt · 1790276204 · focus · HN ↗
    I, for one, welcome our future inmice overlords.
  3. hagbard_c · 1790276515 · focus · HN ↗
    They already do in their own dimension, all that dying and running down the wrong track in those mazes is just to befuddle us silly hominids.
    Source: <a href="https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice" rel="nofollow">https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice
  4. [deleted] · 1790354577 · focus · HN ↗
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2. gbil · 1790275382 · focus · HN ↗
  Did you read it at all?
  > Notably, creatine uptake similarly boosted the activation and immunostimulatory function of human monocyte-derived DCs.
  1. gkhartman · 1790277312 · focus · HN ↗
    Fair. Missed that bit tbh.
3. asdff · 1790276155 · focus · HN ↗
  As it turns out, no one lets you generate mutant human embryos with deficient creatine receptors, grow them up into adult humans, inject them with melanoma, euthanize them and harvest the tumor cell mass and bone marrow for analysis.
  1. bayesic · 1790279458 · focus · HN ↗
    Unhelpful. Sure, we can't do the same study in humans, but that doesn't mean the results are inherently applicable to humans

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