Search liu.se

Voltage-gated ion channels are key players in all biological systems where they generate and modulate for instance the nervous impulse and pacemaker activity in the heart and the brain.

One in four people in Sweden will be affected at some time by a depression so serious that it requires treatment. Wouldn’t it be great if we could understand the brain circuits that determine the way we feel, and find new and better treatments?

Human medicines that act on important signal systems in the brain make fish bolder, shows a new study by researchers at LiU. The results reinforce that drugs that end up in the natural environment may have consequences for animal life.

Hearing researchers at Linköping University are addressing the hearing problems of the elderly. The aim is to improve the quality of life of the millions of elderly who suffer from hearing loss.

Researchers at LiU have discovered a new mechanism by which substances can open a certain type of ion channel and in this way regulate nerve impulses. The discovery, published in the journal PNAS, may help in the development of future drugs.

Amyloid beta, a protein linked with Alzheimer's disease, has different properties in different cell types in the brains of fruit flies, according to a new study. It seems that certain cell types are hardly damaged at all by amyloid aggregates.

Scientists are now able to label proteins in the brains of mice who have a disease similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The new method allows the researchers to observe how harmful protein aggregates develop over a longer time period.