By one estimate, 68% of Americans consume less than the recommended dietary amount of magnesium. Magnesium is essential for ...

identified a glycine to serine substitution in NLRP1 that might be ... Ataxia–telangiectasia mutated; Aβ - Amyloid-β; BBB, Blood brain barrier; BIR, Baculovirus IAP Repeat domain; CARD, Caspase ...

Scientists from the University of Liverpool and their global collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for ...

The blood–brain barrier is the biggest challenge to the development of drugs that target the CNS. Most capillary beds leak plasma contents between and across endothelial cells by way of window-like ...

Researchers explore the impact of exercise on the short-term regulation of insulin pathways in brain circuits.

The 3 rd Annual Blood-Brain Barrier Summit is dedicated to helping drug developers enhance drug delivery across the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) to enable effective treatments for neurodegenerative ...

The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders. But are we sure that a healthy human brain doesn’t have a microbiome of its own?

“It reduces the blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and leads to neuronal damage of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is instrumental for learning and memory.” While some of these ...

A new study now shows that shorter sleep duration could interact with high blood pressure to increase the risk of poor cognitive function and brain aging. Although these results are correlational ...

“In February, during my eighth month of pregnancy, I was diagnosed with a massive blood clot in my brain,” Gadot wrote. “For weeks, I had endured excruciating headaches that confined me to ...