Figure 1: HMGB1 and TLR4 immunoreactivity in the CA1 pyramidal layer of hippocampi of kainic acid–injected C57BL/6 mice. We did not find a parallel change in the number of neurons showing ...

A team of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has developed a new way to produce kainic acid, a natural ...

And neuroscientists have used the active ingredient from those plants—a molecule known as kainic acid—to study epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurological conditions. But in the ...