CNIO researchers found that in mice on high-fat diets, cancer cells in the bloodstream use platelets as a protective shield, aiding their spread. This fatty diet also makes it easier for tumor cells ...

white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Blood carries things you need, like oxygen and glucose, and waste products, such as carbon dioxide, around your body. White blood cells form part of the ...

You need these cells to carry oxygen around your body ... In PV, it lowers the number of red blood cells and platelets, which are cells that help blood clot. If you take this drug, you may ...

They mainly become red blood cells, which carry oxygen around the body; white blood cells, which help fight infection; and platelets, which help stop bleeding. At the moment, stem cells for ...

A team led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has shown in mice that a high-fat diet increases metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer, which has the worst prognosis.

In addition to affecting platelets, the CNIO group found that the high-fat diet increases the expression of the protein fibronectin in the lung tissue where tumor cells metastasize.