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Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for April 2011
Lithium treatment helps slow the progression of memory loss, according to new research, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The finding raises the possibility that lithium could one day be used to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
28 April, 2011
Neurophysiologists of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Iit) and the University of Genoa, together with geneticists of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal have demonstrated the involvement of the Synapsin-1 gene (SYN1) in epilepsy and autism.
21 April, 2011
Scientists at the Babraham Institute have discovered a critical piece of the jigsaw that explains how a type of immune cell – a white blood cell known as a neutrophil – is activated by antibodies. The research, published today in the journal Science Signaling, brings new understanding to how the Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling pathway is used to regulate neutrophil function. This may pave the way for the development of a strategy to specifically inhibit the inappropriate activation of these immune cells that is seen in auto-immune inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, glomerulonephritis and some skin blistering diseases.
12 April, 2011
Study shows how cells decide whether they have enough fat – a molecular checkpoint that, when disturbed, could lead to obesity or other diseases.
07 April, 2011