Skin cells provide new knowledge about brain functions
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 13:42
in Biology & Nature
Until now diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been difficult to study biologically, since this would entail taking samples from the patient's brain. But new research findings from Oerebro University in Sweden show that it is just as good to study a certain type of skin cells, since they function in a way that is similar to a type of brain cells that are suspected of playing a major role in both disorders...
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