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Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice
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Jul 01, 2009 |
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A human growth factor that stimulates blood stem cells to proliferate in the bone marrow reverses memory impairment in mice genetically altered to develop Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University ...
New insight into Alzheimer's disease pathology
May 04, 2009 |
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An Alzheimer's-related protein helps form and maintain nerve cell connections, according to a study published in the May 4 print issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
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Finding clues for nerve cell repair
Jun 03, 2008 |
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A new study at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University identifies a key mechanism for the normal development of motor nerve cells (motor neurons) - cells that control muscles. This finding is crucial to understanding ...
Gas on your mind
Dec 11, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Leicester are to gain a greater insight into the workings of the human mind…through the study of a snail’s brain.
One small step for neurons, one giant leap for nerve cell repair
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a ...
Researchers make new finding about how memory is stored
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to show that the location of protein-destroying “machines” in nerve cells in the brain may play an important role in how memories are formed – a finding ...
Scientists uncover mechanism for dental pain
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's School of Dentistry have discovered a novel function of the peptide known as Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in the development of the trigeminal nerve. The trigeminal nerve provides ...
Killer competition: Neurons duke it out for survival
May 06, 2008 |
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The developing nervous system makes far more nerve cells than are needed to ensure target organs and tissues are properly connected to the nervous system. As nerves connect to target organs, they somehow compete with each ...
Scientists identify machinery that helps make memories
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the brain can modify one microscopic connection, or synapse, at a time in a brain cell and not affect the thousands of other connections nearby. Plasticity, the ability of the brain ...
Maintaining the brain's wiring in aging and disease
Dec 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Babraham Institute near Cambridge, supported by the Alzheimer's Research Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have discovered that the brain's circuitry survives ...
Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS
Nov 10, 2009 |
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An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...
Findings could speed the development of drugs for Parkinson's disease
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have significantly advanced our understanding of dopamine release from nerve cells, findings that should speed the development of more effective drugs for treating Parkinson's Disease.
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