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. 2020 Jun 6;77(24):5101–5119. doi: 10.1007/s00018-020-03569-w

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Therapeutic strategies to target brain tumors’ metabolism. Metabolic targeting in brain tumors can be divided into four major strategies: depletion of extrinsic nutrients from the tumor milieu, blocking the uptake of extrinsic nutrients by tumor cells, inhibiting the biosynthesis of essential endogenous metabolites, or promoting the toxic accumulation of intermediary metabolites