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Glial cells help mitigate neurological damage in Huntington’s disease

June 24, 2021 brain protection, fruit fly model, glia cells, Huntington’s disease, mouse model, Research, synapse genes

Research with human samples and mouse and fruit fly models opens a window into the brain’s protective responses in Huntington’s disease.

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Breakdown of neuron-glia partnership can pave the way to neurodegeneration

November 30, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, APOE4, free radicals, glia cells, lipid accumulation, Neurodegeneration, neuron

In 2015, Dr. Lucy Liu, now a Ph.D. graduate in neuroscience from the Bellen lab, discovered that a number of genes involved in neurodegeneration promote

From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma