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Why are rapidly growing cancers that originate in nervous tissue most likely composed of neuroglial cells rather than neurons?
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∙ 13y ago
Neurones don't differentiate (divide). You'll have the same neurones when you die as you had when you were born (with a few exceptions). Glia can be created from immature cells called NGF2 expressing cells. This is why cancer affects glia; cancer starts when cell division goes wrong. Neurones don't divide so they don't get cancer (other than in very young children when new neurones are still produced), whereas NGF2 cells do, so they can become cancerous.
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