San Francisco, April 24 (Ians) Researchers have identified how healthy neurons metabolise glucose, an advance which may have implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body’s sugar energy, or glucose, each day.
The team from Gladstone Institutes and University of California-San Francisco (Ucsf) shed new light on exactly how neurons — the cells that send electrical signals through the brain — consume and metabolise glucose, as well as how these cells adapt to glucose shortages.
“We already knew that the brain requires a lot of glucose, but it had been unclear how much neurons themselves rely on glucose and what methods they use to break the sugar down,” said Ken Nakamura, Associate Investigator at Gladstone, a US-based non-profit research organisation.
“Now, we have a much better understanding of the basic fuel that makes neurons run.
The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body’s sugar energy, or glucose, each day.
The team from Gladstone Institutes and University of California-San Francisco (Ucsf) shed new light on exactly how neurons — the cells that send electrical signals through the brain — consume and metabolise glucose, as well as how these cells adapt to glucose shortages.
“We already knew that the brain requires a lot of glucose, but it had been unclear how much neurons themselves rely on glucose and what methods they use to break the sugar down,” said Ken Nakamura, Associate Investigator at Gladstone, a US-based non-profit research organisation.
“Now, we have a much better understanding of the basic fuel that makes neurons run.
- 4/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
London and La based Stealth Media Group is going to introduce a new project to buyers at the 2012 Berlin Film Market entitled Fangs of War. Jim Donovan (Provocateur, Pure) will direct from a script by Geoffrey Gunn (Siren). Shooting is expected to begin this June.
The film re-imagines Bram Stoker's classic title as a World War II tale, where the Nazis and Allies vie for control of Count Dracula and his legendary powers. The film is being set up as a Canadian, Chinese, German Co-production produced by Ken Nakamura, of The Nakamura Group Advantage Inc. out of Canada, Jan Fantl of Seaside Pictures/ Cine-Plus out of Germany and Fang Yi Ning and Nicholas Peng of Cfi Film Fund out of China, where Emei Film Group will also handle Chinese distribution.
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The film re-imagines Bram Stoker's classic title as a World War II tale, where the Nazis and Allies vie for control of Count Dracula and his legendary powers. The film is being set up as a Canadian, Chinese, German Co-production produced by Ken Nakamura, of The Nakamura Group Advantage Inc. out of Canada, Jan Fantl of Seaside Pictures/ Cine-Plus out of Germany and Fang Yi Ning and Nicholas Peng of Cfi Film Fund out of China, where Emei Film Group will also handle Chinese distribution.
Here's a synopsis to chew on until then...
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- 1/16/2012
- by ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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