El passat dimecres 21 de febrer, l’Institut d’Investigaci\u00f3 Biom\u00e8dica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) va rebre la visita d’Erwin Neher, premi Nobel de Fisiologia o Medicina de 1991, per participar en una trobada informal adre\u00e7ada als investigadors pre i postdoctorals del centre. Erwin Neher ha destacat, entre altres coses, en l’estudi dels fonaments moleculars del flux d’informaci\u00f3 entre neurones, treball que pot ser clau per a moltes patologies neurodegeneratives, com el Parkinson o l’Alzheimer. Va rebre el Premi Nobel al costat de Bert Sakmann per desenvolupar la t\u00e8cnica ‘Patch-clamp’, que permet l’estudi individual o m\u00faltiple de canals i\u00f2nics.<\/p>\n
Convidat pel cap del Programa de neuroci\u00e8ncies de l’IDIBELL i professor de la Universitat de Barcelona, \u200b\u200bFrancisco Ciruela, Erwin Neher va tenir l’oportunitat de con\u00e8ixer les instal\u00b7lacions del programa, en qu\u00e8 els cient\u00edfics treballen en temes afins als del seu inter\u00e8s, i xerrar amb els investigadors m\u00e9s joves del centre, amb els quals va compartir les seves experi\u00e8ncies i va intercanviar opinions sobre temes cient\u00edfics i d’actualitat, com els reptes actuals en el camp de les neuroci\u00e8ncies.<\/p>\n
Les investigacions de Neher han estat molt rellevants en el camp de les Neuroci\u00e8ncies durant les \u00faltimes d\u00e8cades. Nascut a Landsberg, (Alemanya) el 1944, \u00e9s metge i f\u00edsic i tamb\u00e9 va cursar estudis de bioqu\u00edmica a les universitats de Munic, a Alemanya, i Wisconsin als Estats Units. Sent un jove becari predoctoral, el professor Neher va decidir estudiar com els corrents el\u00e8ctrics provocats per moviments i\u00f2nics regulaven el control de diverses funcions biol\u00f2giques, com la transmissi\u00f3 d’impulsos nerviosos, la contracci\u00f3 dels m\u00fasculs o l’activaci\u00f3 dels receptors per a la percepci\u00f3 dels est\u00edmuls visuals, auditius i t\u00e0ctils, entre d’altres. Neher es va adonar que per poder comprendre tots aquests fen\u00f2mens b\u00e0sics, havia de buscar els canals i\u00f2nics, l’exist\u00e8ncia dels quals ning\u00fa havia estat capa\u00e7 de demostrar.<\/p>\n
Aix\u00ed doncs, al costat de Bert Sakmann va dur a terme el disseny i posada a punt de la t\u00e8cnica de ‘patch-clamp’, que permet mesurar i estudiar el corrent el\u00e8ctric quan travessa la membrana de les c\u00e8l\u00b7lules com mai abans s’havia fet, porus a porus, canal a canal, amb una precisi\u00f3 \u00fanica. Aquesta t\u00e8cnica li va permetre demostrar la funci\u00f3 dels diferents tipus de canals i\u00f2nics, facilitant la comprensi\u00f3 de malalties com la diabetis o la fibrosi qu\u00edstica i el desenvolupament de nous medicaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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