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"Consuming high amounts of red meat is commonly linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, especially colorectal cancer. At the same time, antibodies against Neu5Gc , a carbohydrate derived from red meat, have been observed to worsen cancer in “human-like” mice. While these antibodies and red meat consumption are each believed to increase cancer risk, it remains unknown how diet affects the antibodies. Now, research suggests that consuming Neu5Gc from red meat and dairy can modulate the amounts and properties of anti-Neu5Gc antibodies in humans, providing clues to how the carbohydrate might be linked to cancer. The team behind the study calculated daily intake of Neu5Gc for more than 19,000 subjects aged 18 years or older. These participants provided regular logs of food consumed over 24-hour periods as part of the NutriNet-Santé study, which was designed to investigate relationships between nutrition and health status..."

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs, are stringy chromatin networks that are ejected from immune cells to capture and neutralize harmful pathogens. But over-casting NETs can be indicative of disease, including cancer and thrombosis. As a result, NETs have become a promising non-invasive biomarker, and one way to quantify these networks is by detecting a critical component of NETs— histones whose arginine residues have been converted to citrulline, or H3Cit. These assays use antibodies to measure H3Cit in patient plasma, but a recent study shows that existing assays are limited by two important factors: Part of the problem is that available antibodies to H3Cit display low specificity, poor signal-to-noise, and lot variability. The second issue is that these assays are calibrated using enzymatically citrullinated, free histone peptides, which are unstable in human plasma and produce variable performance between batches..."

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