Movement can reduce side effects of radiotherapy reduce
For the treatment of brain tumors in children is also made to the radiation therapy. The irradiation of the skull can also be healthy brain tissue affected and side effects such as learning and memory difficulties or behavioural changes. Swedish researchers have now shown in mice that exercise can counteract the problems.
In animals, after irradiation much gone, quickly formed new nerve cells than mice contracts. In addition, in the bewegungsfreudigen animals still immature nerve cells rapidly in affected brain areas, and introduce changes in behaviour appealed again. According to the scientists show the research results indicate that the recovery movement of the brain after a radiation therapy can improve physical activity and that therefore also play a role in the rehabilitation treatment of children with cancer should play. Your report, the researchers in the scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).