Stergios Tsartsalis

Sep 25, 2023 | medicalxpress.com | Stergios Tsartsalis

An international team co-led by UNIGE and HUG has decoded the only protein that can be used to '"see" neuroinflammation. This discovery will improve the understanding of neurological and psychiatric disease mechanisms. Inflammation is the sign that our body is defending itself against an aggression. But when this response escalates, for example in the brain, it can lead to serious neurological or psychiatric diseases.

Aug 28, 2023 | nature.com | Erik Nutma |Nurun Fancy |Maria Weinert |Stergios Tsartsalis |Maria C. Trolese |Takashi Saito | +15 more

AbstractMicroglial activation plays central roles in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Positron emission tomography (PET) targeting 18 kDa Translocator Protein (TSPO) is widely used for localising inflammation in vivo, but its quantitative interpretation remains uncertain.