Disorders of the Nervous System

Authors show that the same stress can elicit divergent morphological effects in astrocytes in the hippocampus versus the amygdala.
By Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
March 28, 2019

Authors show that the same stress can elicit divergent morphological effects in astrocytes in the hippocampus versus the amygdala.

Authors found that experimentally induced stroke causes a secondary wave of brain tissue inflammation that shares some molecular and morphological characteristics with atherosclerosis.
By Matthew Davidson, PhD
February 14, 2019

Authors found that experimentally induced stroke causes a secondary wave of brain tissue inflammation that shares some molecular and morphological characteristics with atherosclerosis.

By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
October 31, 2018

Authors demonstrate that capsaicin, a TRPV1 agonist, activates a pro-axon growth program, suggesting an approach for enhancing axon regeneration in selective populations of neurons.

Authors functionally defined immediate-early astrocytes (ieAstrocytes) as an in vivo astrocyte population, modulated by S1P signaling, in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis.
By Rosalind S.E. Carney, DPhil
October 15, 2018

Authors functionally defined immediate-early astrocytes (ieAstrocytes) as an in vivo astrocyte population, modulated by S1P signaling, in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis.