Inflamed in the brain

• Autores: Dara Mohammadi
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3027, 2015, pág. 41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The inflammatory response, which is designed to keep people safe when they get sick, might lie behind some cases of depression. But it is also thought to play a role in the death of cells associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. The brain is protected from the body's aggressive immune system by the blood-brain barrier, but has its own immune cells that can be activated by signals from the body's inflammatory response. Hugh Perry,a neuroimmunologist at Southampton University UK suspects that immune cells in the brain called micioglia could be killing off neurons.