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Cxcl12 Induces Camkii Synaptic Localization And Glutamate-Induced Hippocampal Cell Death, Robert M. Bragg Iii
Cxcl12 Induces Camkii Synaptic Localization And Glutamate-Induced Hippocampal Cell Death, Robert M. Bragg Iii
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Cerebral ischemia is known to induce cell death through hypoxia and oxidative stress following reperfusion. However, cell death can spread beyond the ischemic core when toxic glutamate levels act on NMDA receptors of surrounding regions. Levels of CXCL12, a chemokine primarily released from glia, reportedly elevate following ischemia. Acute activation of its receptor, CXCR4, appears to serve a neuroprotective function while prolonged activation results in cell death and this cell death was reported to be dependent on the combined release of calcium from intracellular stores as well as calcium influx through NMDARs. Calcium influx through NMDA receptor channels leads to …
Parent Adolescent Conflict Among Asian Indian Immigrant Families, Aparna Kumar
Parent Adolescent Conflict Among Asian Indian Immigrant Families, Aparna Kumar
WWU Graduate School Collection
Acculturation can be a difficult process for immigrant families as parents and children adjust to different cultural value systems. Parents and adolescents may acculturate at different rates to the mainstream culture due to parents wanting to retain their heritage culture and adolescents immersion into mainstream Western culture. This seems to assume assimilation as the same process as acculturation when it is only one possible outcome. As a result of this, acculturation gaps between parents and adolescents result, which may lead to parent-adolescent conflict. The current study took a mixed methods approach to investigate how Asian Indian immigrant families experience parentadolescent …