According to Ramirez and the study's senior investigator, Yuri Persidsky, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at
TUSM, macrophages likely are the primary reservoir for HIV.
Koch, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at
TUSM, and Director of the Center for Translational Medicine at
TUSM.
These changes were especially prominent in female mice," said first author Lorena Saavedra-Rodriguez, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Larry Feig laboratory at Tufts University School of Medicine (
TUSM).
Building on her previous work, neuroscientist Giuseppina Tesco, MD, PhD, of Tufts University School of Medicine (
TUSM), led a research team that first used an in vivo model to determine how a single episode of TBI could alter the brain.
"Data from the present study also shows the supplements and omega-3 fatty acids collaborate with low-dietary glycemic index (dGI) diets against progression to advanced AMD," said corresponding author Chung-Jung Chiu, DDS, PhD, a scientist in the LNVR and an assistant professor at
TUSM.