Lab research finds gluten causes brain inflammation in mice
In what is believed to be a world first discovery, University of Otago researchers have found that wheat gluten causes brain inflammation in mice.
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In what is believed to be a world first discovery, University of Otago researchers have found that wheat gluten causes brain inflammation in mice.
Aug 8, 2023
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If mice commuted, their brains might find it progressively harder to navigate the maze of Los Angeles freeways.
Apr 7, 2011
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A deadly combination of two mosquito-borne viruses may be a trigger for stroke, new research published in the The Lancet Neurology has found.
Sep 18, 2020
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A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer's ...
Apr 24, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...
Mar 18, 2022
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All neurodegenerative diseases have a common thread: the appearance of protein clumps in the brain such as amyloid-beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease and alpha synuclein aggregates in Parkinson's. The root cause of this ...
Dec 3, 2019
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In studies with mouse and human tissue, as well as live mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that a snag in the normal process of cleaning up broken DNA in brain cells may hasten the progression of Parkinson's ...
May 19, 2022
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have shown that treating hypoglycemia, or low blood glucose, in newborns according to current recommendations is safe and appears to prevent brain damage.
Oct 14, 2015
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In a paper published today, British scientists have found evidence that biological material contributing to lesions in the brain, characteristic in Alzheimer's patients, may also cause the build-up of brain-cell-damaging ...
Mar 26, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—The complications of uncontrolled diabetes are well recognized: nerve damage, kidney disease, blindness, and circulation problems that affect the extremities. The disease's impact on the brain, however, ...
Sep 10, 2013
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