Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered Jekyll and Hyde immune cells in the brain that ultimately help with brain repair but.
Researchers receive $460,000 NIH grant for brain imaging study
Michael Alosco, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and Gil Rabinovici, MD, professor of neurology and radiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have been awarded a two-year, $460,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Additional support for the study is provided by the Rainwater Charitable Foundation.
Alosco and Rabinovici will study the effectiveness of a second generation tau PET tracer (MK-6240) in hopes of detecting chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living people. The study, Focused Imaging for the Neurodegenerative Disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (FIND-CTE), will involve 30 former National Football League players and 10 controls between the ages of 45-74. The Concussion Legacy Foundation will handle recruitment of the participants.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered Jekyll and Hyde immune cells in the brain that ultimately help with brain repair but early after injury can lead to fatal swelling, suggesting that timing may be critical when administering treatment. These dual-purpose cells, which are called myelomonocytic cells and which are carried to the brain by the blood, are just one type of brain immune cell that NIH researchers tracked, watching in real-time as the brain repaired itself after injury.
Here’s Why Your Jaw Constantly Hurts, According to an Orofacial Pain Specialist Prevention 1/17/2021 Lauren Krouse
The jaw is one of those body parts that’s easy to take for granted until it hurts and then it’s all you can think about. When jaw pain makes it difficult to chew, talk, or move due to shock-like sensations, sharp stabs, or a dull ache that just won’t go away, it can be concerning and life-disrupting.
One form of jaw pain to take very seriously is pulsating, hard-to-pinpoint pain in the side of your jaw, which could indicate of all things a heart attack. “Similar to the pain that a patient can experience in the left arm during a heart attack, this pain can also move into the lower corner of the jaw below the ear,” explains Isabel Moreno Hay, D.D.S., Ph.D., division chief and program director of the Orofacial Pain Program and assistant professor in the College of Dentistry at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Because it can be li
Jackson Lab adds COVID-19 to 2021 research slate
BAR HARBOR The Jackson Laboratory has received millions of dollars in grants for its research projects across a range of fields: Alzheimer’s, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and COVID-19. The research institute pivoted last year to help with the COVID-19 effort, including processing tests for 60,000 Mainers at its Farmington, Conn., campus. It also offered cryopreservation services for mouse models to universities, freezing mouse sperm and eggs in tanks of liquid nitrogen.
But the 70-plus researchers and faculty housed in facilities in Bar Harbor, Farmington, Conn., Sacramento, Calif., and Ellsworth still carried on their work, said Ken Fasman, Ph.D., senior vice president for research. “The things we are trying to study at the labs, these haven’t gone away, and we need this work to continue.”