Potential Blood Biomarker for TBI, and Mechanistic Link with Alzheimerâs Disease Identified
April 15, 2021
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Scientists headed by a team at the Harrington Discovery Institute have discovered a potential new approach to preventing brain nerve cells from deteriorating after brain injury. The teamâs work, reported in
Cell, demonstrated that traumatic brain injury (TBI) induces acetylation of the tau protein at sites that are also acetylated in human Alzheimerâs disease (AD), and revealed a potential mechanistic link between TBI and AD. The studies in addition indicated that blood levels of acetylated tau (ac-tau) could represent a potential biomarker for TBI. Strikingly, the researchers found that two FDA-approved NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) medicines, salsalate and diflunisal, were potently neuroprotective after TBI in mice, while an analysis of human records indicated that use of either drug for other indications was ass
Researchers discover a new way to prevent brain nerve cells from deteriorating after injury
Violent blows or jolts to the head can cause traumatic brain injury (TBI), and there are currently about five million people in the U.S. living with some form of chronic impairment after suffering a TBI. Even in a mild form, TBI can lead to lifelong nerve cell deterioration associated with a wide array of neuropsychiatric conditions. Tragically, there are no medicines to protect nerve cells after injury. Behind aging and genetics, TBI is the third leading cause of Alzheimer s disease (AD), yet the link between these two conditions is not understood.
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Protecting the Developing Brain from Prenatal Stress
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February 1, 2021
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Researchers from the University of Iowa (UI) and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center report that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy. The team published its study “Maternal P7C3-A20 Treatment Protects Offspring from Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Prenatal Stress” in
Antioxidants & Redox Signaling.
Working in a mouse model, Rachel Schroeder, a student in the UI Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, drew a connection between the work of her two mentors, Hanna Stevens, MD, PhD, UI associate professor of psychiatry and Ida P. Haller Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Andrew A. Pieper, MD, PhD, a former UI faculty member. Pieper is now Morley-Mather Chair of Neuropsychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and Investigator and Director of the Neuro
Scientists find strategy to protect developing brain from prenatal stress in mice ANI | Updated: Jan 29, 2021 16:05 IST
Washington [US], January 29 (ANI): New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy.
Working in a mouse model, Rachel Schroeder, a student in the UI Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, drew a connection between the work of her two mentors, Hanna Stevens, MD, PhD, UI associate professor of psychiatry and Ida P. Haller Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Andrew A. Pieper, MD, PhD, a former UI faculty member, now Morley-Mather Chair of Neuropsychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and Investigator and Director of the Neurotherapeutics Center at the Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medica