What Happens to a Linebacker’s Neurons?

Written by pennmedicinenews on August 19, 2010 – 1:38 pm -

What happens to the neurons in your brain when you experience a blow to the head? The impact can change the neural architecture of the brain from elastic to brittle. The research of Doug Smith, MD, director of Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair, on understanding how brain cells respond to injuries, is featured in the August issue of Discover.

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What Happens to a Linebacker’s Neurons?

Written by pennmedicinenews on August 19, 2010 – 1:38 pm -

What happens to the neurons in your brain when you experience a blow to the head? The impact can change the neural architecture of the brain from elastic to brittle. The research of Doug Smith, MD, director of Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair, on understanding how brain cells respond to injuries, is featured in the August issue of Discover.

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Battling Malaria, Ninja-Style <<>>

Written by pennmedicinenews on August 3, 2009 – 2:08 pm -

The research of Doron Greenbaum, PhD, subsidiary professor of Pharmacology, was described in a Root.com article on the evolutionary arms channel to be victorious over malaria. His propositions focuses on the malaria parasite, which jumps from one red blood stall to another, difficult the cells in the process. Traditionally, researchers have on the agenda c trick focused on protection malaria from entering the cells in the first function. But now Greenbaum has found a way to lock malaria backwards the cells by blocking the action of a key swarm protein, called calpain, that allows its cut. He believes it authority be more difficult for malaria to evolve rebelliousness to a deaden aimed at a protein in its body fairly than at one of its own <<>>

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