News tagged with calcium signaling
Researchers identify missing target for calcium signaling
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 22, 2009 |
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An international study led by Ohio State University neuroscience researchers describes one of the missing triggers that controls calcium inside cells, a process important for muscle contraction, nerve-cell transmission, insulin ...
Calcium may be the key to understanding Alzheimer's disease
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called ...
Mechanism explains calcium abnormalities in Alzheimer's brain
Jun 25, 2008 |
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A new study uncovers a mechanism that directly links mutations that cause early onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) with aberrant calcium signaling. The research, published by Cell Press in the June 26th issue of the journal Neuron, provid ...
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Epilepsy drugs could treat Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Researchers in the USA have discovered a potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The study, published in BioMed Central's open access ...
Scientists shed new light on cause of inherited movement disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 22, 2009 |
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University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role ...
Teaching an old drug new tricks
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A century-old drug that failed in its original intent to treat tuberculosis but has worked well as an antileprosy medicine now holds new promise as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to ...
A new understanding of why seizures occur with alcohol withdrawal
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 17, 2009 |
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Epileptic seizures are the most dramatic and prominent aspect of the "alcohol withdrawal syndrome" that occurs when a person abruptly stops a long-term or chronic drinking habit. Researchers have shown that the flow of calcium ...
Researchers reveal mechanism for neuron self-preservation
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Tsuruta et al. find that a lipid kinase directs a voltage-gated calcium channel's degradation to save neurons from a lethal dose of overexcitement. The study appears in the October 19, 2009 issue of the Journal of ...
Calcium and vitamin D may not be the only protection against bone loss
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Diets that are high in protein and cereal grains produce an excess of acid in the body which may increase calcium excretion and weaken bones, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of ...
Alzheimer's-associated plaques may have impact throughout the brain
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The impact of the amyloid plaques that appear in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease may extend beyond the deposits' effects on neurons - the cells that transmit electrochemical signals throughout the nervous ...
Study suggests a second dimension to Alzheimer's disease
Sep 07, 2006 |
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The genes responsible for an inherited form of Alzheimer's disease play a direct role within cells that has largely been overlooked, according to a report in the September 8, 2006 issue of the journal Cell, published by Cel ...
Daily potassium citrate wards off kidney stones in seizure patients on high-fat diet
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they ...
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