Exciting findings from CUNY researchers reveal a novel target in the fight against Alzheimer’s — harmful microglia activated by cellular stress. This could lead to therapies that reverse the damaging ...

Microglia are known to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, but exactly what they do has remained a mystery. Scientists in the Bart De Strooper Lab at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain ...

Cleveland Clinic Genome Center researchers have unraveled how immune cells called microglia can transform and drive harmful processes like neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease. The study ...

Numerous studies have shown that cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest are associated with the occurrence of neuroinflammation, accompanied by the activation of microglia.

1Department of Neurosurgery, Keelung Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Keelung, Taiwan.

Lipid peroxidation was assessed by flow cytometry and immunofluorescence ... Redox lipid reprogramming commands susceptibility of macrophages and microglia to ferroptotic death. Nat Chem Biol, 2020 ...

The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled ...

IFN-γ binds to its receptor on various central nervous system cells, including astrocytes and microglia, activating the Janus kinase (JAK)–STAT signaling ... CCH is characterized by a persistent ...

Some look like stars. Some are bushy. Some are sheath-like. There are Schwann cells that wrap around nerve fibers and insulate them, astrocytes that direct flow of fluid in the brain, microglia that ...