Dr. Teresa Gunn and Medical School Researchers Review the Importance of Serine Homeostasis for Brain Health Across the Lifespan

Our brain health is dependent on an intricate balance of genes and environmental inputs that act to maintain homeostasis or equilibrium. Dr. Teresa Gunn, and Touro medical students Dana Elazar, Natalie Alvarez and Sabrina Drobeck, recently published on the role of the SLC1A4 protein in transporting the amino acid, L-serine, across the blood–brain barrier. Transport regulates synaptic D-serine levels such that SLC1A4 helps establish and maintain brain health across the lifespan.

Dr. Teresa Gunn of the Weissman Hood Institute at Touro University and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine - Montana Campus

The publication is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40076728/

Dr. Gunn relocated from Cornell University to join the faculty of the McLaughlin Research Institute (now the Weissman Hood Institute at Touro University). She is an expert on preclinical models for rare and common human diseases. She regularly trains medical students in her laboratory and assists them in publishing original research and literature reviews.