A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences - News

Funded projects study the role of glial cells in Parkinson’s disease and develop a new drug against resistant bacterial infections.

Extracellular ATP is a powerful trigger of migraine, but the endogenous gaseous transmitter hydrogen sulfide known by its unpleasant smell prevents ATP-induced nociception, according to the doctoral thesis of Kseniia Koroleva.

A new study using induced pluripotent stem cell technology links astrocyte dysfunction to Parkinson’s disease pathology.