Eitan okun Ph.D.
@eitanokun.bsky.social
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Head of the Paul Feder Laboratory for Alzheimer's disease and Down Syndrome research at the Life Sciences Faculty at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
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Eitan okun Ph.D.
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· Apr 27
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· Apr 24
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· Apr 20
Associations between chronotype, morbidity and mortality in the UK Biobank cohort
Later chronotype (i.e. evening preference) and later timing of sleep have been associated with greater morbidity, including higher rates of metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease (CVD). H...
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Eitan okun Ph.D.
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· Apr 18
Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson’s disease - Nature
After transplantation into the brain of patients with Parkinson’s disease, allogeneic dopaminergic progenitors derived from induced pluripotent stem cells survived, produced dopamine and did not form ...
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· Mar 26
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,...
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· Mar 25
Immune evasion through mitochondrial transfer in the tumour microenvironment - Nature
Mitochondria with mutations in their DNA from cancer cells can be transferred to T cells in the tumour microenvironment, which leads to T cell dysfunction and impaired antitumour immunity.
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· Mar 25
Eitan okun Ph.D.
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· Mar 23
A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications - Nature Communications
The neuron-specific RNA binding protein NOVA1 has a single amino acid substitution unique to modern humans. Here, the authors characterize the evolutional specificity and the function of the substitut...
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· Mar 22
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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· Feb 26
A short-term, high-caloric diet has prolonged effects on brain insulin action in men - Nature Metabolism
Short-term overeating with calorie-rich snacks is shown to disrupt insulin action in the brain of men, which outlasted the time-frame of overeating.
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Eitan okun Ph.D.
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· Feb 22
Risdiplam for Prenatal Therapy of Spinal Muscular Atrophy | NEJM
The alternate splicing small molecule risdiplam, administered to a fetus with spinal
muscular atrophy, had an apparent ameliorating effect on the disorder through 30 months.
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