How cleaning product chemicals called ‘quats’ may affect the brain
The Washington Post: Paul Tesar, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics and director of the Institute for Glial Sciences at the School of Medicine, and Erin Cohn, a graduate student in the School of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program, discussed their research into how a common ingredient in household disinfectants has been shown to affect oligodendrocytes—a type of brain cell—in laboratory studies.
