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·April 22, 2022·4 min read

New Discoveries About the Origin of the Brain’s Immune System

New findings reveal phagocytes do not fully mature until after birth, contradicting previous assumptions that they mature during embryonic development.

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·April 11, 2018·5 min read

Discovery Could Let Doctors Customize Brain’s Immune Response to Disease

Researchers have discovered a method to engraft immune cells in the brains of lab mice without the use of radiation.

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·January 6, 2016·6 min read

Regeneration and Growth of Injured Peripheral Nerves Accelerated With Help of Protein

Researchers demonstrate the regenerative dynamics of CCL2.

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·February 4, 2020·5 min read

Dopamine signals may guide migration of immune cells to infection sites

Dopamine may play a role in activating immune cells to migrate in the early stages of infection.

This is an illustration of the spinal cord with the cells

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·March 4, 2021·4 min read

A New Cell Type Implicated in Chronic Pain and Inflammation

MRC1+ macrophages are dysfunctional in animal models of neuropathic pain. Stimulating the expression of the anti-inflammatory protein CD163 reduced signs of neuroinflammation in the spinal cords of mice with neuropathic pain.

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·May 22, 2018·4 min read

Link Between Tuberculosis and Parkinson’s Disease Discovered

Studying what the LRRK2 gene does in macrophages infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, researchers believe they may have identified a cause of Parkinson's disease.