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Precisely opening a gate to the brain in mice

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Protein crosses blood-brain barrier to degrade Alzheimer plaques

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Swallow your technology: Drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken by mouth

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Categories Health, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Brain glia cells up their DNA to preserve blood-brain barrier

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans, Uncategorized

Researchers find reduced levels of an important neurotransmitter in MS

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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown for the first time that damage to a particular area of the brain and a consequent reduction in noradrenaline are associated with multiple sclerosis.
The study is available online in t…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Hope for stroke victims

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Much of the devastation of stroke and head trauma is due to damage caused the overproduction of a substance in the brain called glutamate. Preventing this damage has been impossible, until now, as many drugs don’t cross the so-called blood-brain bar…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Targeted particle fools brain’s guardian to reach tumors

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HOUSTON — A targeted delivery combination selectively crosses the tight barrier that protects the brain from the bloodstream to home in on and bind to brain tumors, a research team led by scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Ca…

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Drug reduces the increase in fear caused by previous traumatic experiences in mice

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Mice previously exposed to traumatic situations demonstrate a more persistent memory of fear conditioning – acquired by associating an acoustic stimulus with an aversive stimulus – and lack the ability to inhibit this fear. This phenomenon is simila…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior

The pericyte becomes a player in Alzheimer’s, other diseases

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Cells in the brain called pericytes that have not been high on the list of targets for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s may play a more crucial role in the development of neurodegenerative diseases than has been realized.
The findings, published…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health

Trojan Horse ploy to sneak protective drug into brains of stroke patients

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Scientists are reporting development of a long-sought method with the potential for getting medication through a biological barrier that surrounds the brain, where it may limit the brain damage caused by stroke. Their approach for sneaking the nerve…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health

Brain bleeding is common with aging, UCI study finds

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 8, 2010 — A small amount of bleeding in the brain seems to be common among older individuals, according to a UC Irvine study.
Neurologist Dr. Mark Fisher and neuropathologist Dr. Ronald Kim found that cerebral microbleeds a…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Health, Life & Non-humans

Key to blood-brain barrier opens way for treating Alzheimer’s and stroke

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While the blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from harmful chemicals occurring naturally in the blood, it also obstructs the transport of drugs to the brain. In an article in Nature scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska In…

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