Alex Hughes
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Stats, cats, and running
Cool paper about a couple of things I love
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Reversible reduction in brain myelin content upon marathon running - Nature Metabolism
Using magnetic resonance imaging on marathon runners, Ramos-Cabrer, Cabrera-Zubizarreta et al. report that the signal detected as a surrogate of myelin content is significantly reduced after exercise,...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01244-7
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Stand Up for Science!
7 months ago
WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 4 DAYS? Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide! โ๏ธ๐๐งช
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Jeremy Berg
8 months ago
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n
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Katharina Schmack
10 months ago
Immunologists, time to embrace your inner neuroscientist ๐ง ๐งช Macrophages (yes,
#macrophages
) release glutamate (yes,
#glutamate
) to sensory neurons engaging in the muscle stretch reflex. Very cool paper!
#neuroscience
#immunology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Macrophages excite muscle spindles with glutamate to bolster locomotion - Nature
A population of macrophages with exclusive molecular and functional signatures in the muscle spindles express machinery for synthesizing and releasing glutamate, and a cellular component, the muscle s...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08272-5
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Hello! I've had this account for a couple of weeks now so it's time to start posting cat pictures. This is Cauchy - we just celebrated his 11th gotcha day!
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