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… IGF1 Innovations & Inventions Rett Syndrome, a devastating … that are regulated by MECP2. A schematic shows the role of IGF1 downstream of MeCP2 in regulating synaptic function. … Syndrome is now in advanced clinical trials: the molecule IGF1 , or Insulin-like growth factor 1. The lab’s hypothesis …

Mechanisms and therapeutics for Rett Syndrome

… Newton Professor of Neuroscience, found that the protein IGF1, which is regulated by MeCP2, could remedy many of the … positive results last year. The lab discovered the role of IGF1 in neural plasticity in 2006 when they showed that it … ocular dominance plasticity). In 2009 they revealed that IGF1 was also consequential to Rett syndrome. IGF1 becomes …

Look and Learn: Studying the visual system

March 13, 2020
… broadly CPG15 multiphoton microscopy LTD amblyopia autism IGF1 Rett syndrome visual cortex visual system Vision isn’t … mice raised in the dark or with MD. A protein called IGF1 stood out. Artificially adding it prevented ODP. As they studied IGF1 more they realized that it promoted synaptic maturation …

The model remodeler

March 14, 2022
… from experience plasticity candidate plasticity genes IGF1 autism A Picower Institute primer on ‘plasticity,’ the … to synaptic maturation comes via a protein called IGF1 that is reduced among people with Rett. That insight … them to show that treating Rett-model mice with extra IGF1 peptide or IGF1 corrected many defects of MECP2 …

Genes & Disease

December 14, 2020
… Disease candidate plasticity genes Bipolar Disorder IGF1 mGluR5 CPG2 DNA’s resemblance to a twisted ladder … 2006, Sur’s lab discovered evidence that a protein called IGF1 is a crucial component in how synapses in the visual … in newborn mice develop in response to visual activity . IGF1 is regulated by MECP2 and is indeed notably reduced in …
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