News tagged with glutamate
High levels of tau protein linked to poor recovery after brain injury
High levels of tau protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Fondazione IRCCS ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Researchers uncover steps in synapse building, pruning
Like a gardener who stakes some plants and weeds out others, the brain is constantly building networks of synapses, while pruning out redundant or unneeded synapses. Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory led by Assistant ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Scientists prevent cerebral palsy-like brain damage in mice
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that a protein may help prevent the kind of brain damage that occurs in babies with cerebral palsy.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2011 |
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The architects of the brain: Scientists decipher the role of calcium signals
German neurobiologists have found that certain receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate determine the architecture of nerve cells in the developing brain. Individual receptor variants lead to especially long and branched ...
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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New drug target for Alzheimer's, stroke discovered
A tiny piece of a critical receptor that fuels the brain and without which sentient beings cannot live has been discovered by University at Buffalo scientists as a promising new drug target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists find cellular mechanism that shapes your memories
(Medical Xpress) -- VU University Amsterdam neuroscientists discovered what happens in your nerve cells upon memory recall, as appeared in this week's advance online publication of Nature Neuroscience. This is important for ex ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Control of fear in the brain decoded
When healthy people are faced with threatening situations, they react with a suitable behavioural response and do not descend into a state of either panic or indifference, as is the case, for example, with ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Experience puts the personal stamp on a place in memory
Seeing and exploring both are necessary for stability in a person's episodic memory when taking in a new experience, say University of Oregon researchers.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Modulation of inhibitory output is key function of antiobesity hormone
Scientists have known for some time that the hormone leptin acts in the brain to prevent obesity, but the specific underlying neurocircuitry has remained a mystery. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the July 14 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2011 |
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A flash of insight: Chemist uses lasers to see proteins at work
Binghamton University researcher Christof Grewer thinks he has an important brain transport protein – glutamate transporter – figured out. And he's using a novel approach to spy on them by taking ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Diabetes vaccine stumbles at second hurdle
An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet.
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Many migraines may have a common genetic basis
(Medical Xpress) -- A study into the genetic basis of many common forms of migraine has identified three variants that suggest that most forms of migraine have a shared genetic foundation, regardless of how ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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A flash of insight
Imagine never having seen a car before and trying to determine what makes the vehicle run. That’s how Christof Grewer begins to explain his research on tiny proteins in the brain.
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Scientists find a new way insulin-producing cells die
The death of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas is a core defect in diabetes. Scientists in Italy and Texas now have discovered a new way that these cells die — by toxic imbalance of a molecule secreted by ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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How genetic variations in neuroactive steroid-producing enzymes may influence drinking habits
One of the ways in which alcohol dependence (AD) may develop is through alcohol's effects on neural signaling, such as modulation of γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors. Alcohol may indirectly modulate GABAA ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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