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Friendly Brain Bug.(Brief Article)
When scientists discovered the defective gene that causes Huntington's disease back in 1993, half a million patients worldwide had reason to believe that a cure of the neuro-degenerative disease would be forthcoming. So far they've been disappointed. But scientists now hope to offer the next best thing: a treatment that alleviates the symptoms of Huntington's and slows its progress.
Researchers from the Center for Neurosciences of Coimbra in Portugal and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, used lab mice infected with a rodent disease similar to Huntington's--an affliction of the central nervous system that can cause involuntary movements and difficulty eating. First they ...
- New understanding of why brain cells die after stroke will lead to new...
- Newspaper article from: Drug Week January 16, 2004 700+ words
...found a major mechanism that causes brain cells to die from stroke. They discovered that when brain cells are deprived of oxygen and vital nutrients...special channel on the surface of those brain cells is activated, triggering a lethal chain...
- Snail brain cells on chips point toward brain/device products.
- Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily August 5, 2004 700+ words
Snail brain cells on chips point toward brain/device...have shown for the first time that brain cells placed on a silicon chip can be stimulated...among themselves. The use of snail brain cells, instead of brains cells from rats...
- Do old brain cells die?
- Magazine article from: Science News Travis, John September 7, 1996 700+ words
...confirm a similar age-related loss of brain cells. In the last year, however, a small...While past studies tallied the number of brain cells in a thin slice of hippocampal tissue...recently reported that the number of brain cells in the hippocampus differs little among...
- SPORTS, OTHER CHALLENGES BOOST BRAIN CELLS, MICE RESEARCH...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) April 3, 1997 700+ words
...playground built up a startling increase in brain cells - suggesting sports and challenging...environment can boost the number of brain cells in a mammal, but researcher Fred Gage...but it's unclear whether the extra brain cells were the reason. Janice Juraska, a...
- Rescuing brain cells in stroke patients from the brink of suicide.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire August 24, 1999 700+ words
...UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: Rescuing brain cells in stroke patients from the brink of...days after a patient suffers a stroke, brain cells are bombarded with molecular "pro...as well. In a bid to persuade fickle brain cells to live, University of Rochester Medical...
- PLAYGROUND USE BUILDS LAB MICE'S BRAIN CELLS.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) April 6, 1997 700+ words
...playground built up a startling increase in brain cells, suggesting sports and challenging...environment can boost the number of brain cells in a mammal, but researcher Fred Gage...but it's unclear whether the extra brain cells were the reason. Janice Juraska, a...
- Stimulating clue hints how lithium works.(research indicates lithium keeps...
- Magazine article from: Science News Travis, John March 14, 1998 700+ words
...colleagues have found that lithium protects brain cells from being stimulated to death by glutamate...provocatively, preserve the life of brain cells whose presence guards against manic...the response of various types of rat brain cells to glutamate. Many normal cells and...
- MICE MADE WITH HUMAN BRAIN CELLS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) December 13, 2005 700+ words
...living mice with working human brain cells inside their skulls. The research...can become functional human brain cells inside a living animal, reaching...connections with surrounding brain cells. The human cells had no apparent...
