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Neuroinflammation
Neuroinflammation: inflammation of the nervous tissue. Thought to be initiated in response to a variety of cues: infection, traumatic brain injury, toxic metabolites, or autoimmunity.
MAR 11, 2020 | 10:30 AM
The accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid beta peptides and/or neurofibrillary tangle formation are key pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including but not limited to Alzheim...
JAN 01, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Misfolded and accumulated neurodegenerative disease associated proteins (NDAPs, such as tau and alpha-synuclein) represent the major pathological hallmark in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson&...
NOV 19, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: November 19, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTMicroglial cells are the resident innate immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS) and are responsible for regulating inflammatory activati...
SEP 27, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 27, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Thienopyrazole derivatives have recently emerged as effective antitumoral agents with kinase inhibitory activity. In this s...
SEP 26, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Neuroinflammation has been implicated as a factor in alcohol-induced neurodegeneration, but the role of the neuroimmune system in alcohol consumption has only recently come to the forefront....
AUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
JUL 31, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 31, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricle...
MAR 28, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Several clinical and preclinical studies implicate abnormal endocannabinoid functioning and neuroinflammation as possible mechanisms in the pathophysiology of autism. Correcting these abnorma...
MAR 14, 2019 | 12:00 PM
The immune system is linked to an increasing number of medical diseases, including lately also severe mental disorders. Hence, infections, autoimmunity and other immune responses could be inv...
MAR 14, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Some of the most significant hurdles faced by neuroscientists in the field of neurodegenerative disease research when seeking to acquire genetic information include sample accessibility, repr...
MAR 18, 2015 | 10:30 AM
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...