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·January 19, 2011·4 min read

MicroRNA-29 Makes Brain Cells Resist Programmed Cell Death

Neuroscientists found that the specific microRNA, microRNA-29 (miR-29), can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death. The researchers injected...

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·January 18, 2011·2 min read

Protein Misfolding and Aggregation Roles in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Max Planck researchers discovered that large, less hydrophobic proteins with a significant increase of disorder in their structures were more...

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·December 20, 2010·2 min read

Another Marathon Mouse Engineered – Boosting Acetylcholine Reduces Fatigue

After inserting a gene into mice that increases choline transporter and as a result increases acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions, the engineered mice were able to run on treadmills twice as long as controls without the inserted gene.

The image is a diagram showing the formation of beta-amyloid.

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·December 9, 2010·5 min read

Beta-amyloid Removal Problems May Underlie Alzheimer’s Disease

The removal of beta-amyloid is not efficient in late-onset Alzheimer's disease sufferers. These new findings could help produce better early diagnostic tests and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and related research.

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·December 9, 2010·3 min read

Acetylcholine and SK Channels Involved in Learning and Memory

New research on learning describes the interaction between acetlycholine receptors and SK channels and their involvement in learning and memory. These findings could lead to new research targeting acetylcholine and SK channels to help cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia as well as help understand learning and memory better.

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·November 30, 2010·3 min read

Diabetes Slows Synthesis of Brain Cholesterol

Diabetes research with mice has shown that diabetes can slow down the synthesis of brain cholesterol, important in synapse formation and many other neuronal functions.

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·September 22, 2010·3 min read

Can Career Choices Influence Dementia?

Correlating data from 588 patients diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD), researchers found that subjects with professions which related highly for verbal skills had greater tissue loss on the right hand side of the brain. By contrast, those whose professions required less aptitude for verbal skills, for example flight engineers, had more tissue damage to the left hand side of the brain.

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·August 10, 2010·3 min read

Perforant Path Identified in Humans – Early ID of Alzheimer’s Possible

UC Irvine researchers have identified the perforant path in humans with the diffusion tensor imaging technique.

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·August 2, 2010·2 min read

Neuroglobin Could Be Key To Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease

Research scientists from UC Davis and the University of Auckland have discovered that neuroglobin might be key to preventing Alzheimer's disease. Neuroglobin can prevent apoptosis in response to nautral stress.

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·July 29, 2010·3 min read

New Molecular Clue About Cause Of Brain Cell Death In Neurodegenerative Diseases

Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have discovered a new molecular clue about the cause of brain cell death in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.