Nachoja
@nnoorbergen
Neuroburguer 🧠🏄🌷🏳️🌈
Estudiante de doctorado. Biología mitocondrial y neurocosas.
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23-03-2020 18:25:17
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New work in Science Translational Medicine reveals how a drop in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and the enzyme ELOVL2 correlate with vision decline in aged mice—and shows that intravitreal supplementation of PUFAs can reverse vision loss and rejuvenate the retina. scim.ag/42SgCQq
Just out Science Magazine Cognitive dysfunction and memory loss, as seen with Alzheimer's disease and aging, indexed to activation of the integrated stress response (ISR), and blocked by an ISR inhibitor (DP71L)—learning from biology of viruses! [in mouse models]
Cool finding from Dan Larson's lab published in Molecular Cell They found a novel role for U2AF in regulating localization & translation of nuclear-encoded mitocondrial mRNAs.