VCAM1, brain ageing, and the 'vampire hypothesis'
- đ¤ Speaker: Veronica Kane Dickson
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
- đ Venue: Seminar room, Level 4***, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, CBC
Abstract
This week’s paper discusses the action of a key factor in brain ageing, VCAM1 , discovered to be relevant to what has been called the vampire hypothesis – effects of giving an old mouse young blood.
Please find the paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0440-4
Yousef et al (2019) Nature Medicine. Aged blood impairs hippocampal neural precursor activity and activates microglia via brain endothelial cell VCAM1 .
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Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00