Protein Linked to Sex Differences in Age-Related Neuron Loss
Date Time Protein Linked to Sex Differences in Age-Related Neuron Loss It is not every day that scientists come across a phenomenon so fundamental that it is observed across fruit flies, rodents and humans. In a paper published today in Aging Cell, neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences discovered that a single protein—a glutamate transporter on the membrane of vesicles that carry dopamine in neurons—is key to regulating sex differences in the brain’s vulnerability to age-related neuron loss. The protein—named VGLUT—was more abundant in dop...
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