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Mariana Serrano
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Reposted by Mariana Serrano
Registrations are open for the 2nd International Symposium on Addiction Research (ISAR) 2025 in Querétaro, Mexico, from August 25-27. Come visit us and show your work! addictions.inb.unam.mx
May 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Mariana Serrano
New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This was led by former Bachelor student Débora Elizarrarás and postdoc César Carranza. Here we wanted to study structural brain changes in opiod self-administration. Specifically if there was a link between MRI volume and neuroinflamation.
Morphine self-administration induces region-specific brain volume changes and microglial phenotypic alterations without affecting neuronal density in male Wistar rats
Addiction to opioids, including morphine, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal death, and neuroinflammation....
www.biorxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM