Bladder cancer is common accounting for over 12 000 cases each year in the UK. The muscle-invasive form of the disease is commonly treated with either radical cystectomy or radical radiotherapy. The ...

Even though most studies show an increase in Class I (GLUT1-4) glucose transport facilitators in tumor tissues, some studies suggest that these transporters are not significantly increased in some ...

Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or Glut1) could be a new way to fight kidney disease, according to a study ...

Glut1 deficiency syndrome is a rare and disabling neurological disease still relatively unknown to the medical community. A mutation in the SLC2A1 gene in affected patients causes the glucose ...

A new study confirmed the validity of a blood test that can diagnose patients with GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, a treatable neurometabolic disease that causes a wide range of neurologic symptoms in ...

A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an "inborn metabolic error": an inability to produce vitamin ...

A deficiency in the protein responsible for moving glucose across the brain's protective blood-brain barrier appears to intensify the neurodegenerative effects of Alzheimer's disease, according to a ...