UCSD scientists say molecule moderates condition linked to neurodegenerative diseases
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a steroid hormone that inhibits inflammation in the brain. The findings, to be published in the May 13 issue of the journal Cell, have implications for understanding the exaggerated inflammatory responses that are characteristic features of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. … Read the full story from the UCSD Newsroom
Senior author of the study is Christopher K. Glass, MD, PhD (pictured above), Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Kaoru Saijo, MD, PhD, project scientist in the Glass laboratory, is the study’s first author.
