News tagged with neuron death
Alzheimer’s Findings Resolve Dispute Over How Disease Kills Brain Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- For a decade, Alzheimer's disease researchers have been entrenched in debate about one of the mechanisms believed to be responsible for brain cell death and memory loss in the illness.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Matrix fragments trigger fatal excitement
Shredded extracellular matrix (ECM) is toxic to neurons. Chen et al. reveal a new mechanism for how ECM demolition causes brain damage. The study will appear in the December 29, 2008 issue of The Journal of ...
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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Scientists discover new direction in Alzheimer's research
In what they are calling a new direction in the study of Alzheimer's disease, UC Santa Barbara scientists have made an important finding about what happens to brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer's ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Novel method results in promising drugs for Huntington's disease therapeutics
Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable progressive neurodegenerative genetic disorder which affects motor coordination and leads to cognitive decline and dementia.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Genetic change prevents cell death in mouse model of Parkinson's disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- By shifting a normal protective mechanism into overdrive, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist has completely shielded mice from a toxic chemical that would otherwise cause Parkinson's ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Humanin peptide linked to neuronal cell survival and regulation of glucose metabolism
Recent studies have shown that the mitochondrial peptide Humanin (HN) protects against neuronal cell death such as happens in Alzheimer's disease. Now, in a study presented April 22 at Experimental Biology 2009 in New Orleans, ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Parkinson's: Neurons destroyed by 3 simultaneous strikes
In a study that reveals the clearest picture to date of neuron death in Parkinson's disease, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have found that a trio of culprits acting in concert is responsible for killing ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Gene's novel role may provide key to treating liver and neurodegenerative diseases
Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from apoptosis, or programmed ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Scientists discover how neuroglobin protects against Alzheimer's
A team of scientists at the University of California, Davis and the University of Auckland has discovered that neuroglobin may protect against Alzheimer's disease by preventing brain neurons from dying in response to natural ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 02, 2010 |
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New insight into neuronal survival after brain injury
A new study identifies a molecule that is a critical regulator of neuron survival after ischemic brain injury. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 13 issue of the journal Neuron, may lead to new therapies that r ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Scientists identify protein form linked to Huntington's disease
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered how a form of the protein linked to Huntington's disease influences the timing and severity of its symptoms, offering new avenues for treating not only this disease, ...
Oct 30, 2011 |
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Could drugs for mood disorders, pain and epilepsy cause psychiatric disorders later in life?
Young animals treated with commonly-prescribed drugs develop behavioral abnormalities in adulthood say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. The drugs tested include those used to treat epilepsy, mood disorders ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2009 |
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