İngilizce İçerik - GENÇOMÜ

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND MICROGLIAL ACTIVATION

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Buse ÜNLÜ / 17 Haziran 2022

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most encountered irreversible neurogenerative diseases 1. However its complicated pathogenicity is not well-understood, amyloid-beta (Aβ) dysmetabolism, formation of extracellular Aβ deposits, presence of intracellular neurofibrillary tangles (NT), and neurodegeneration (ND) in the hippocampus and neocortex are involved in main processes in AD 2 3 4. Existence of the […]

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Life Beyond Sun

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Elif BÖCÜ / 11 Haziran 2022

The term ‘desert’ comes from the Ecclesiastical Latin ‘dēsertum’1 which means ‘an abandoned place’, but actually the term has not always been used in the way we use it now2. For example, “Desert Islands” has not used to mean a desert like the Sahara or Antarctic3. Before the 20th century, it simply meant “unpopulated area”

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Is Amygdala The Fear Center Of Our Brain?

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Alper CESUR / 8 Mayıs 2022

The amygdala is considered a structure of the limbic system of the brain. It is believed that the amygdala plays a very important role in emotions and behavior. The best known feature is that it is the fear center of the brain [1]. So the real question should be: Is the amygdala really the center

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Secondary Metabolities

2021-2022, İngilizce İçerik / Eylül ASLAN / 5 Mayıs 2022

In general, the compounds produced by plants have been divided into primary metabolites and secondary metabolites: Primary metabolites are simple sugars, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids which are directly required by plant growth1,2. As their names suggest, primary metabolites are found in all plant cells and are the biomolecules underlying the existence of plants,

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Parkinson’s Disease

İngilizce İçerik / Buse ÜNLÜ / 28 Nisan 2022

Parkinson’s disease (PD) has the second-highest prevalence as a neurological disorder after Alzheimer’s disease 1. It is also described as ‘’progressive movement disorder’’ 2. It was first identified as “shaking palsy” by James Parkinson in 1817 3 4. Prevalence of PD is nearly 4% of the individuals older than age 85 1. Global prevalence of

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