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Study gives more insight into inflammatory signs for adolescent depression
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 16 (ANI): Depression and the risk of depression are linked to different inflammatory proteins in boys and girls, says new research led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN)
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Study reveals how inflammatory signs for adolescent depression differ betw
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Inflammatory proteins differ in boys and girls, and new research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has revealed a relationship between depression and the risk of depression.
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Study finds how specific T cells in brain slow progression of Alzheimer’s
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Up to 5.8 million Americans currently suffer from Alzheimer's disease, a neurological ailment marked by a progressive deterioration in cognitive function, including memory loss.
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Researchers suggest Musashi-2 controls skeletal muscle composition
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Now, a team led by Assistant Professor Yasuro Furuichi from Tokyo Metropolitan University have emerged with a key part of the puzzle. In previous work, they found that Musashi-2 (Msi2), a protein originally discovered in nerve cells, was also expressed in skeletal muscle tissue.
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Researchers discover how specialized T cells in brain slow progression of
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder characterised with progressive cognitive decline, including memory loss, affects up to 5.8 million Americans today. Protein aggregates, made up of beta-amyloid or other proteins, occur in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. These beta-amyloid plaq
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Study finds how mutant protein can invade brain
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
In many neurodegenerative diseases, aberrant proteins build up and spread throughout the brain over time. But aggregation or propagation—which comes first? Japanese researchers offer some fresh perspectives on the mechanism underlying Parkinson's illness. In a study published recently in C
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Ion channel proteins can rearrange itself into bigger shape: Study
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to a study headed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, a member of a significant family of ion channel proteins can momentarily rearrange itself into a bigger shape with significantly different capabilities.
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Researchers give more insight into unknown ways cells break proteins
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Short-lived proteins control gene expression in cells to carry out a variety of crucial functions, from aiding in the formation of neural connections to supporting the body's immune system. These proteins are created in the nucleus and, after performing their function, are promptly eliminate
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Melatonin and its derivatives improve long-term memory for object recognit
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Multiple research in animal models have shown that melatonin and its compounds improve memory. It is also known that the phosphorylation of specific memory-related proteins is required for the formation of both short- and long-term memories. The biochemical mechanisms underpinning melatonin-
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Melatonin improves long-term memory for object recognition: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Multiple studies in animal models have shown that melatonin and its derivatives improve memory. It is also known that the phosphorylation of certain memory-related proteins is required for the formation of both short- and long-term memories.
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Study investigates kidney illness using sophisticated imaging techniques
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Professors of biomedical engineering report that the potent imaging mass cytometry (IMC) has been used for the first time to examine the kidneys of patients with lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus), an autoimmune disease that can affect multiple organs and be fatal, and to detect lupus neph
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Study sheds light on antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Bacteria utilise a number of strategies to combat the treatments meant to kill them. One of the most prevalent of these weapons is ribosome-modifying enzymes. These enzymes are becoming increasingly common, appearing in clinical samples from bacteria with varying drug resistances all over th
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