Maite Solas, Alzheimer's, astrocytes and a scholarship

Astrocytes are not neurons. They are brain cells, but of another type, cells with the capacity to accumulate glucose and that, according to Maite Solas Zubiaurre, researcher at the University of Navarra, can play a special role in Alzheimer's disease. Now Solas has received a large grant from the Pasqual Maragall Foundation to investigate this hypothesis. The hypothesis is that glucose metabolism in Alzheimer's causes an imbalance.