neuroinflammation
2 stories tagged "neuroinflammation"
Brain & Aging
The Fat Molecule That Rides From Your Waistline to Your Brain, and Feeds Alzheimer's Once It Gets There
In obese mice, a membrane fat called phosphatidylethanolamine packed into tiny vesicles, rode to the brain, and sabotaged the immune cells that clear amyloid. An investigational drug reversed it, in mice.
Brain & AgingA molecule your body already makes coaxed exhausted brain cells back to fighting Alzheimer's
Spanish and Swiss researchers report that OLE, a fatty-acid amino-acid the body already makes, coaxed sluggish microglia to surround amyloid plaques and improve memory in Alzheimer's mice.