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Leandra Jurca
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🌿🔬Ciências Biológicas | UFRN
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Publications in the past week built substantially on our knowledge of the brain's waste disposal system—glymphatics—and the implications on sleep and brain aging.
Featuring exceptional work by Nedergaard Lab and @jonykipnis.bsky.social
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Our Sleep, Brain Aging, and Waste Clearance
How sleep prevents "dirty" brains that age faster
erictopol.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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September 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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Novidade sobre calangos 🇧🇷

Publicamos um artigo sobre a biologia de Ameivula nigrigula (lagarto-chicote-de-garganta-preta), espécie endêmica da Caatinga.

Estudamos sua dieta, o dimorfismo sexual (diferença morfológica entre machos e fêmeas), maturação reprodutiva e o polimorfismo na espécie
September 14, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Amyloplast sedimentation repolarizes LAZYs to achieve #GravitySensing in plants

Gravistimulation➡️
MAPK (MKK5-MPK3 axis)➡️
phospho-LAZY
+TOC complex➡️
LAZY translocates to lower side of plasma membrane➡️
Auxin redistribution & re-polarized root growth

#Cell 2023
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
February 18, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Exciting news for #agricultural #innovation! 🔎 📣 Mass #spectrometry imaging (MSI) of plants in situ is giving better insights for boosting #metabolism. 🔬🌿💪

More in the Journal of Experimental Botany by Patrick Horn & Kent Chapman from the University of North Texas: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Imaging plant metabolism in situ
The objective of this review is to provide a timely update on how mass spectrometry imaging is used to visualize plant metabolism in situ .
doi.org
May 16, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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E muito mais aqui:

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September 1, 2024 at 12:55 PM