Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Lukiw WJ

LSU Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2020 Gravier Street, Suite 904, New Orleans LA 70112 USA

Biography

Walter J Lukiw BS, MS, PhD currently works part-time at the Neurosciences Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans. Walter does research in Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Ophthalmology and Molecular Genetics. Their current project is inflammatory signaling in Alzheimer's disease (AD), age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and human prion disease (PrD); they have researched the abundance, complexity and speciation of all types of RNA (mostly microRNA and messenger RNA) in the human brain in health and disease, the neurotoxicology of mercury and aluminum, and microbiome-signaling-to the human brain and CNS for about 40 years

Publications

Microbial Sources of Amyloid and Relevance to Amyloidogenesis andAlzheimer's Disease (AD)

Since the inception of the human microbiome project (HMP) by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2007 there has been a keen resurgence in our recognition of the human microbiome and its contribution to development, immunity, neurophysiology, metabolic and nutritive support to central nervous system (CNS) health and disease. What is not ge... Read More»

Zhao Y, Dua P and Lukiw WJ

Commentary: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2015, 5:177

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000177

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