by Kathryn Ryan, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc Credit: CC0 Public DomainA new study in the Journal of Neurotrauma has shown that Angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R) activation improves neurological and cardiac deficiencies caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mice. AT2R activation is known to exert protective roles in the brain and heart. TBI of...
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: FROM LEFT, WEI WU, PHD, AND XIAO-MING XU, PHD CREDIT: IU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully reprogrammed a glial cell type in the central nervous system into new neurons to promote recovery after spinal cord injury–revealing an untapped potential to leverage the cell...
