News tagged with mouse proteins

Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells

In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy prevents memory problems in mice with Alzheimer's disease

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) in San Francisco have discovered a new strategy to prevent memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Humans with AD and mice genetically ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify one cause of damage in Alzheimer's disease, find a way to stop it

Researchers suspect that a protein superstructure called amyloid beta is responsible for much of the neural damage of Alzheimer's disease.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Alzheimer's researchers find high protein diet shrinks brain

One of the many reasons to pick a low-calorie, low-fat diet rich in vegetables, fruits, and fish is that a host of epidemiological studies have suggested that such a diet may delay the onset or slow the progression of Alzheimer's ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 4

Expression of infrared fluorescence engineered in mammals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego - led by 2008 Nobel-Prize winner Roger Tsien, PhD - have shown that bacterial proteins called phytochromes can be engineered into infrared-fluorescent ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify 'Facebook neurons'

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that within the brain's neocortex lies a subnetwork of highly active neurons that behave much like people in social networks. Like Facebook, these neuronal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Protein restores learning, memory in Alzheimer's mouse model

Scientists at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio restored learning and memory in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model by increasing a protein called CBP. Salvatore Oddo, Ph.D., of the university's Department ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a potential target for therapy for patients with a deadly prostate cancer

A monoclonal antibody targeting a well known cell surface protein inhibited prostate cancer growth and metastasis in an aggressive form of the disease that did not respond to hormone therapy, according to a study by researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New way to fight drug-resistant fungal infections discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secret to fighting often lethal drug resistant fungal infections is to knock out the bug's molecular chaperone, according to U of T researchers.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Good housekeeping maintains a healthy liver

Differences in the levels of two key metabolic enzymes may explain why some people are more susceptible to liver damage, according to a study in the October 17 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Acetylation may contribute to dementia and Alzheimer's disease

A new study uncovers a protein modification that may contribute to the formation of neuron-damaging neurofibrillary tangles in the human brain. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 23 issue of the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists identify molecular gatekeeper of arthritis

Elimination of a molecular gatekeeper leads to the development of arthritis in mice, scientists report in a study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The newly discovered gatekeeper is a protein that determ ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New therapy substitutes missing protein in those with muscular dystrophy

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have discovered a new therapy that shows potential to treat people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease and the most common form of muscular dystrophy ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover 'obesity gene' involved in weight gain response to high-fat diet

Scientists have determined that a specific gene plays a role in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet. The finding in an animal study suggests that blocking this gene could one day be a therapeutic strategy to reduce ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3