Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's ...

Microglia have been revealed to first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit ...

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...

A study led by Turkish researcher Pinar Ayata unveiled a critical mechanism involving microglia—specialized immune cells in ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease by latching on to ...

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 ...

Gut-Brain Connection. People who have CD83+ microglia in their brains also have HCMV (top left) and IgG4 (top right) in their ...

Researchers identified a stress-induced microglial pathway that accelerates Alzheimer’s disease by releasing toxic lipids ...

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 ...

Discover how stressed-out immune cells in the brain may be the key culprit behind the development of Alzheimer's disease.