
Micaela Zonta
@zontamicaela
Technologist at @CNR_social Institute of Neuroscience in Padua @dsb_unipd studying #astrocytes in brain physiology and pathology #Alzheimer #epilepsy #bloodflow
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08-04-2022 08:37:30
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It's often thought that in #Alzheimer, neurons produce Aβ, with more active neurons making even more, leading to neuronal dysfunction. But our research in PLOS Biology shows that oligodendrocytes also produce a lot of (soluble) Aβ. This has been overlooked because most




📚🔬 Need to estimate brain volumes? Check out this new book chapter on VolumestJ, published by Jorge Valero and researchers from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and Ʌʗʜʋʗɑɼɼʘ . Discover how VolumestJ helps with brain volume estimation using ImageJ. 🚀🧠 Dive in: springer.com/series/7657

Check this out 🧠 New paper from the lab 🥳 Serotonin release in the habenula during emotional contagion promotes resilience | Science @_mameli_ Department of Fundamental Neurosciences Patricia Molina @MauroCongiu Leo Michel science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…






Thrilled to announce that, finally, after a (very very) long way, our paper on the role of astrocytic GLUT1 in energy metabolism is published in Science Advances . science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Want to know more about it? 👇👇

Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in Nature Communications! A huge team effort to develop a new dynamic chemogenic reporter, enabling simultaneous visualisation of membrane contact sites and Ca²⁺ dynamics nature.com/articles/s4146…






Curious about diving into astrocyte Ca²⁺ signaling with two-photon microscopy? Check out our newly published step-by-step protocol! Micaela Zonta Bio-protocol 🧠 #astrocyte #imaging #neuroscience #brainslices #calcium bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?id…

