Awesome study - congrats, Shannon and team!
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Congrats, Celeste!
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Thanks, Silvia!
Thanks, Sandro - hope you're well!
Overall, our work supports that TIMP2 (and likely other unexplored youth-associated factors) could be important for reducing microglial dysfunction in age-related disorders. Thanks for reading! (end).
TIMP2 ⬇️ microglial activation, ⬆️ phagocytosis, and ⬇️ the proportion of microglia associated with deleterious processes, including pro-inflammatory processes and senescence—essentially reversal of several age-associated microglial phenotypes. (5/n)
Since key changes in microglia are seen regardless of which TIMP2 pool is targeted, we wondered if ⬆️the extracellular pool mitigates age-related microglial changes. Since TIMP2 gets into brain f/ blood, we gave aged mice systemic TIMP2 injections. (4/n)
TIMP2 deficiency ⬆️microgliosis, ⬇️phagocytosis, and induces transcriptomic changes associated w/ activation + cytokine production. Hippocampal microdialysis revealed that TIMP2 loss ⬆️cellular stress and inflamm. proteins in the extracellular space. (3/n)
We prev. found that TIMP2 regulates hippocampal plasticity. Since microglia regulate plasticity, we looked at how differing TIMP2 sources affect microglial state and function by targeting global, neuronal, and microglial contributions to the TIMP2 pool. (2/n)
Excited to share a new preprint out from the lab (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) by 1st-author Brittany Hemmer, a newly minted PhD from the lab! A brief thread on what we found (1/n):
Special thanks to her fantastic committee, incl. her committee chair Anne Schaefer (pictured), @scottrussophd.bsky.social , @mcalpinelab.bsky.social , and @cheadlelab.bsky.social for invaluable guidance. She's seeking postdoc opps. in the Boston area (incl. NH/RI)—reach out if interested!
🎉Thrilled to announce that my awesome PhD student, @brittany_hemmer , successfully defended her thesis! Her thesis work is now preprinted (brief summary to follow)—proud of her hard work and perseverance!
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Congrats, Nick!
Our latest in PNAS! 🎉
ATP-sensitive potassium channels alter glycolytic flux to modulate cortical activity and sleep
Take home message?
KATP channels are metabolic sensors under circadian control that gate glycolytic flux, arousal, & sleep/wake transitions.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Congrats to you and the whole team!! 👏🍾
Thrilled to see this paper out!! 🧪
Spatial transcriptomics of brain aging and 'spatial aging clocks' identify cells that have pro-aging or pro-rejuvenating effects on their neighbors!
Huge CONGRATS to Eric Sun and all authors! Fantastic collaboration with @jameszou.bsky.social!
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Fantastic study - congrats!!!
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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Atlas of the plasma proteome in health and disease in 53,026 adults. #Cell #medBsky #SciBsky #scisky #proteome
These results provide an open-access comprehensive proteome-phenome resource (proteome-phenome-atlas.com).
Open Access
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Updated Aging Starter Pack!! People and labs interested in aging 😀 Let me know if you'd like to be added!
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I'd love to be added - thanks for organizing the list!
Thx - good to see you here!
I'd love to join!