Baylor College of Medicine4y
Mouse Lines - Jankowsky Lab
DAT: Dopamine transporter expressed in ventral midbrain regions including the substantia nigra and ventral ... of the adult rodent brain, but due to insertion-site dependent effects, expression ...
Nature7mon
The habenula: from stress evasion to value-based decision-making
The habenula is a phylogenetically old brain structure that is present ... that are involved in the release of dopamine (the substantia nigra pars compacta and ventral tegmental area) and ...
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Parkinson's Discovery Suggests We Already Have an FDA-Approved Treatment
Parkinson's symptoms mainly result from the death or impairment of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain's substantia nigra ... Past studies on mice found Lag3 binds to alpha-synuclein ...
Medical Xpress1mon
Study finds brain enzyme inhibition reduces obesity in mice
In the current study, however, the authors show that brain-wide inhibition of this molecule has a net effect of diminishing weight gain on a high-fat diet. "In our study, we also show that mice in ...
Phys.org20d
Mice headsets make it easier to study brain response to virtual reality
Researchers have developed a set of VR goggles for lab mice for use in brain studies, according to a report published recently in the journal Nature Methods. These VR goggles will allow scientists ...
University of Manchester1y
Striking changes to metal levels discovered in Huntington’s Disease patients’ brain tissue
Increased sodium and potassium ratios were observed in every region except the substantia nigra, and many of the ... and blood–brain barrier dysfunction, as shown by previous studies in mice ...