by Christin Senior, University of Central Florida Pipeline for calculation of TH-IR axon density. Six frames within each region of interest (ROI) were selected, converted to grayscale, thresholded using Otsu algorithm, skeletonized and the signal pixels were measured in each ROI to represent total length of axons travelled in each ROI. Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-27727-9 A team...
Bethesda, MD – People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) face a higher risk of heart disease at an earlier age than people without PTSD. A new study helps explain why. The research was scheduled to be presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting in San Diego this month. Though the meeting, to be held...
Brain scan A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides important insights into how the body regulates its production of heat, a process known as thermogenesis that is currently intensely studied as a target of diabetes and obesity treatment in humans. While researchers had previously hypothesized that macrophages, a class...
