The immune system-gut-brain axis: environmental impacts on aging and neurological disorders
By: Eran Blacher, Ph.D. Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
You are cordially invited to a special seminar of the Department of Human molecular Genetics and Biochemistry and Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine
By:
Eran Blacher, Ph.D.By: Eran Blacher, Ph.D. Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University
Title:
The immune system-gut-brain axis: environmental impacts on aging and neurological disorders
Abstract:
The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in brain research. A transition from a dogmatic brain-focused approach toward a holistic conception of health that integrates key signaling hubs of the human body—such as the gut and its microbial populations, the peripheral immune system, and other mucosal barrier surfaces—is increasingly acknowledged as necessary to understand and cure neurological disorders. I will describe my research into the dynamic connection between our gut and our brain, how aging affects the immune system, how we can use the gut microbiome as a biosensor for the host’s metabolic state, and how intestinal immune responses aggravate post-stroke brain inflammation.
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