Microglia can engage in phagocytosis, and are involved in immune responses within, as well as the development and remodelling of the nervous system. Their shape varies depending on the ...

Butovsky believes xenon has potential as an AD treatment. A Phase 1 clinical trial of xenon at BWH is recruiting healthy elderly volunteers to test safety and effects on immune cells. “I hope this ...

This occurs as the body’s way of protecting against injury from coronary artery disease, stroke, or peripheral artery disease (such as atherosclerosis, which is a buildup of plaque, causing stenosis, ...

Both astrocytes and microglia undergo cellular hypertrophy with increased expression of cell-surface immune modulatory proteins, including those of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

The first plaque put up under Historic England’s National Blue Plaque Scheme was in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, last February, honouring Guyanese nurse and midwife Daphne Steele, who became the ...

“It leads to interesting questions about the interplay [between microglia and neurons],” he said. Tahirovic and colleagues acknowledge the model’s limitations. Even so, they reasoned that if excessive ...

“This subtype of Alzheimer’s includes the hallmark amyloid plaques and tau tangles ... the virus prompts immune cells called microglia to turn on their expression of a gene called CD83 ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease by latching on to them, forming a sort of external stomach and releasing ...

Microglia are the cells on cleanup duty throughout the central nervous system. They scavenge for plaques, debris, and surplus or broken neurons and synapses, chomping down on them where possible and ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease by latching on to them, forming a sort of external stomach and releasing ...