Movie for KIST Alzheimer's Disease (VIDEO)

Korea Institute of Science and Technology

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This is a movie showing how the reactive astrocytes in the brains of Alzheimer's disease model produce the inhibitory transmitter GABA by the enzyme MAO-B and release GABA through the Bestrophin-1 channel to suppress normal information flow during synaptic transmission.

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