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Tübingen

[ too-bing-uhn; German ty-bing-uhn ]

noun

  1. a city in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: known for a highly respected university.


Tübingen

/ ˈtjuːbɪŋən /

noun

  1. a town in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: university (1477). Pop: 83 137 (2003 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Researchers at the Lukowski lab, University of Tübingen, Germany, together with inter-/national collaboration partners, have now demonstrated that these metabolic processes rely on ions such as potassium and calcium, and their dynamics are regulated by the 'large-conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channel' -- or BKCa.

"Our experiments highlight the presence of an ion channel within the energy production machinery in breast cancer cells that promotes profound bioenergetic changes and ultimately triggers the growth of breast cancer cells in an oxygen-depleted environment, such as that found in a solid tumour," concludes senior author Robert Lukowski, Professor of Experimental Pharmacology at the University of Tübingen.

The paper's other authors were: Pablo Ripollés, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Psychology and associate director of Music and Audio Research Laboratory at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Jean-Rémi King, a researcher at France's École Normale Supérieure; Wy Ming Lin, a doctoral student at the University of Tübingen; Laura Gwilliams, an NYU doctoral student at the time of the study; and David Poeppel, a professor in NYU's Department of Psychology and managing director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt, Germany.

Using a microscope, he and Tatiana Tondini of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Albert Isidro of the University Hospital Sagrat Cor in Spain, the study’s other authors, found cut marks around the skull’s edges surrounding dozens of lesions that earlier researchers had linked to metastasized brain cancer.

“All of these similarities drew me to crows,” says Diana Liao, an integrative biologist at the University of Tübingen.

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