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The Aging Brain Lab

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Barron lab @NTU_LKCMedicine @NTUsg Neuroscience lab studying #mitochondria #metabolism #microglia #aging and #Alzheimers

Singapore Bergabung Mayıs 2020
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LKCMedicine@NTU_LKCMedicine·
Breaking boundaries in neuroscience! 🧠 Asst Prof Anna Barron (@AgingBrainLab), our new EMBO Global Investigator, explores mitochondria's role in brain health. Despite pandemic challenges, her commitment to knowledge remains unwavering. Learn more: embo.org/people/putting…
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Putting mitochondria on the map: learn about new EMBO Global Investigator Anna Barron and her research on cellular metabolism as a regulator of microglial fate and function embo.org/people/putting…
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To restore the immune cells’ clean-up function 🧹, we “switched off” glycolytic metabolism by removing hexokinase-2 bound to the mitochondria. This spurred microglia to gobble up 🍽️ toxic proteins that can build up in the brain 🧠 leading to Alzheimer’s. 🧵 (6/7)
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Our new paper out showing that the mitochondrial translocator protein is critical for brain steroidogenesis link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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