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Scientists find brain cells that can stop Alzheimer's: Study
Updated : 4 months ago IST
In a study published November 5 in Nature, the team found that microglia with lower levels of a transcription factor called PU.1 and higher expression of a receptor known as CD28 help reduce brain inflammation.
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New insights into Alzheimer's brain inflammation: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Brain inflammation, while an important aspect of the immune response, plays a negative effect in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the acute, short-lived inflammation that fights infection, the inflammation associated with Alzheimer's is chronic and persistent. Scientists have been trying to figur
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Alzheimer's disease is linked to hidden abdominal fat in middle age
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a study that will be presented next week at the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the development of Alzheimer's disease is connected with higher levels of visceral abdominal fat in midlife.
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Researchers find new approach for treating autoimmune brain inflammation
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers from Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin and DZNE have developed a cutting-edge therapy for the most prevalent kind of autoimmune encephalitis. Reprogramming white blood cells to identify and eradicate disease-causing cells is an innovative strategy that provides unprecedented a
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Study finds new trigger of brain inflammation in Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers discovered that an inflammatory trigger similar to that found in viral infections is higher in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain illness.
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Researchers discover immune reservoir to treat Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers suggested cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that circulates inside of and around your brain and spinal cord, your three-pound brain doesn't feel particularly heavy. This fluid-filled space between your brain and skull shields it from a blow to the head and saturates it with nutrition.
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Research reveals subcutaneous fat is protector of females' brains
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Females' propensity to deposit more fat in places like their hips, buttocks and the backs of their arms, so-called subcutaneous fat, is protective against brain inflammation, which can result in problems like dementia and stroke, at least until menopause, scientists report.
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Virologists identify better model to examine brain-attacking viruses
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 15 (ANI): A new mouse model that might revolutionize the development of therapies targeting brain inflammation caused by Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV), has been identified by virologists from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's risk, sleep disturbance
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's disease risk with sleep disturbance, which may aid early detection and prevention efforts by identifying novel treatment targets at preclinical stages.
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COVID-19 can have long-term impacts on the brain, shows study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Orleans (Los Angeles) [United States], April 5 (ANI): Researchers have found that subjects infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus displayed signs of severe brain inflammation and injury consistent with a reduction in blood or oxygen flow into the brain, neuron damage and small areas of blee
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Researchers find how coronavirus triggers immune response in brain
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
London [UK], March 18 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Huddersfield demonstrated how the induction of brain inflammation accounts for neurological damage in COVID19 patients.
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Delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19: Study
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 12 (ANI): As per a recent study, neurological complications of COVID-19 can include delirium (abrupt change in the brain that causes mental confusion and emotional disruption), brain inflammation, stroke, and nerve damage.
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