by | Jan 21, 2020 | Klein, Robyn, Liu, Hui, Luo, Zonghua, Tu, Zhude "Will"
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues have developed S1PR2-targeted PET tracers. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is an important bioactive lipid that regulates critical biological functions by acting through five specific G protein-coupled S1P recept…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Jin, Hongjun, Liu, Hui, Luo, Zonghua, Tu, Zhude "Will"
— Background: Dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases manifests as a progressive decline in memory and other cognitive abilities. Deposits of beta-amyloid plaques and tangles of the tau protein are thought to cause the destruction o…