… People McKnight Scholars Award supports Flavell lab’s gut-brain connection studies A rapidly growing collection of … in the gut. “This work will help uncover fundamental signaling mechanisms that might allow the gut microbiome to …
… for Learning and Memory Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of … , behavior , calcium imaging , C. elegans , gut-brainsignaling , feeding states , serotonin Contact Info Office: …
… Research Areas sensory neurons , interoception , airway-to-brainsignaling , Single Cell Transcriptomics and Epigenomics , … chemical content of our food, enteroendocrine cells in the gut that report on a meal’s nutritional status, or Merkel …
… could Covid-19 and the body’s immune response affect the brain? Though the most immediately threatening symptoms of … is that because neurons express receptors for some of the signaling molecules, called cytokines, emitted by immune … strongly on the composition of the pregnant mother’s gut microbiome, the populations of bacteria that everyone …
… April 20, 2022 New Research Aging Brain Initiative awards fund 5 new ideas to study, fight … the brain, becomes a means for immune cells activated by gut bacteria to circulate near the brain where they may release signaling molecules that promote Alzheimer’s pathology. …
… IL-17a is released and suppresses a small region of the brain’s cortex that has previously been linked to social … has evolved to be dependent to some degree on cytokine signaling at various times during development or … shown that the presence of certain bacteria in the gut can also prime IL-17a responses. They are now …