Publications by authors named "Lexi Sheldon"
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- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of injury-related death and disability in the U.S., and managing neuroinflammation early is crucial for treatment.
- Pioglitazone, a drug that may reduce inflammation after TBI, shows potential but also has unknown long-term effects that can worsen brain conditions.
- Research in mice indicates that acute/subacute treatment with pioglitazone leads to negative outcomes, including brain damage and behavior changes, highlighting the need for sex-based considerations and further investigation before clinical use for TBI.
Animal disease models are important for neuroscience experimentation and in the study of neurodegenerative disorders. The major neurodegenerative disorder leading to motor impairments is Parkinson's disease (PD). The identification of hereditary forms of PD uncovered gene mutations and variants, such as loss-of-function mutations in PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (Pink1) and the E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin, two proteins involved in mitochondrial quality control, that could be harnessed to create animal models.
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