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Maintaining your body and mind

This venue has step-free access.
Past event - 2017
15 May Doors open 7pm
Event 7.30pm - 9.30pm
The Church, 22 Great Hampton Street,
Birmingham B18 6AQ
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Diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease prevalence are on the increase and have become a significant cost to the NHS over recent time. These talks will allow you to understand the exciting research that is currently taking place to help find future treatments for these devastating diseases.

Your muscles and fat talk to you – what do they say?

Dr James Brown (Senior Lecturer in Biology and Biomedical Science, Aston University)
In the 1990’s the first fat tissue specific hormone, adiponectin, was discovered. Since then it has been shown that our fat cells and muscle cells can release hundreds of different hormones, which can regulate a wide range of physiological processes including hunger and fullness as well as pathological processes such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This talk will cover some of the best known and emerging hormones which might tell us a little about how muscle and fat talk to each other, and how they talk to all the tissues of the body.

Alzheimer’s disease in a dish

Dr Eric Hill (Senior Lecturer, Aston University)
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia affecting around 36 million people worldwide. Obtaining living brain tissue from these patients would allow researchers to investigate the pathways that are disrupted. However, such investigations would be both ethically and technically impossible. Stem cells generated from the skin will allow us to overcome a longstanding problem of how to study this disease and a search for drugs to treat it. This talk will cover the science behind these amazing stem cells and how they are being used to generate brain cells to study this disease.
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