Word: kuchibhotla
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...used a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease in the study to develop some of the pathology found in humans, including senile plaques. They selectively labeled astrocytes with a marker that was bright when the cell was active and dimmer when it was inactive, said Kishore V.G.S. Kuchibhotla, a graduate student at Harvard and one of the authors. Using state of the art optical microscopy that allowed them to image the mouse’s brain while the animal was still alive, the researchers found that the senile plaques modulated the activity of the astrocytes. They discovered that...
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