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Birth timing may affect brain development

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 3, 2020

Early birth prompted apoptosis to begin a day early, but delaying the birth did not alter when cell death began to occur. The study suggests birth time has an important and previously unrecognized effect on brain development.... Read More...

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Inflammation a “game changer” as cellular death dance discovered

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 15, 2020

TNFR1 receptors arrange themselves into clusters, joining together trimers and making oligomers that create a pro-inflammatory response observed in a variety of diseases.... Read More...

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Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease

Neuroscience NewsDecember 9, 2019

Increasing SIRT3 levels with a ketone rich diet may help protect GABAergic interneurons and delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.... Read More...

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Discovery concerning the nervous system overturns a previous theory

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 13, 2019

Rather than having an equal chance of survival, cell death appears to be controlled by a mechanism that filters our the less fit cells.... Read More...

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New insight into motor neuron death mechanisms could be a step toward ALS treatment

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 4, 2019

When a motor neuron-specific pool of heat shock protein 90 (Hps90) was inhibited, motor neuron apoptosis was triggered.... Read More...

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Lack of oxygen doesn’t kill infant brain cells, as previously thought

Neuroscience NewsAugust 29, 2019

A lack of oxygen as a result of preterm birth does not cause hippocampal neurons to die but does impair hippocampal development. Hypoxia causes hippocampal cells to fail to mature normally, causing a reduction in long-term potentiation and impaired learning.... Read More...

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Cell suicide could hold key for brain health and food security

Neuroscience NewsAugust 22, 2019

A new study into human and plant cell apoptosis could provide new avenues for the development of treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and help develop disease-resistant plants.... Read More...

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How chronic stress causes brain damage

Neuroscience NewsAugust 9, 2019

Chronic stress causes autophagy in adult hippocampal neural stem cells. This results in a decline of hippocampal neurogenesis. Cognitive deficits and mood disorders that arise as a result of chronic stress are a result of autophagic death of hippocampal neural stem cells.... Read More...

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Retina restructures itself after cell death

Neuroscience NewsJuly 8, 2019

Gene therapy can restore the structure of the retina and regain normal light responses.... Read More...

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Certain cells secrete a substance in the brain that protects neurons

Neuroscience NewsJune 24, 2019

Vascular cell loss results in neuron loss, researchers report. However, pericytes secrete a substance that helps protect neurons, even when vascular cell degeneration begins to occur.... Read More...

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Experimental PET scan detects abnormal tau protein in brains of living former NFL players

Neuroscience NewsApril 10, 2019

PET imaging of former NFL players who exhibited cognitive decline and psychiatric symptoms linked to CTE showed higher levels of tau in areas of the brain associated with the neurodegenerative disease.... Read More...

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This flow chart shows how BH3-only binds with BAX in apoptosis

Cell death may be triggered by ‘hit-and-run’ interaction

Neuroscience NewsApril 9, 2019

Two different parts to the BAX protein can bind to BH3-only, and these sites function at different stages of BAX activation. When BH3-only binds to one of the regions, BAX becomes able to damage mitochondria. ... Read More...

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Birth timing may affect brain development

Inflammation a “game changer” as cellular death dance discovered

Eating more ketones may fight against Alzheimer’s disease

Discovery concerning the nervous system overturns a previous theory

New insight into motor neuron death mechanisms could be a step toward ALS treatment

Lack of oxygen doesn’t kill infant brain cells, as previously thought

Cell suicide could hold key for brain health and food security

How chronic stress causes brain damage

Retina restructures itself after cell death

Certain cells secrete a substance in the brain that protects neurons

Experimental PET scan detects abnormal tau protein in brains of living former NFL players

Cell death may be triggered by ‘hit-and-run’ interaction