Sentences with phrase «microglial inflammation»

Below: microglial inflammation (brown cells) infiltrating the cerebellum of an autistic patient.

«Minocycline is a very selective downregulator of microglial inflammation,» he says.

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Eggen and his collaborators investigated the impact of high - and low - fat diets on inflammation and microglial markers in a specific brain region — the hypothalamus — of 6 - month - old mice.

Microglial cells recognize areas of damage and inflammation and swallow cellular debris.

Microglial cells normally help with repair in the body, but when over-activated they can promote unhealthy inflammation.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased brain levels of a marker of microglial activation, a sign of inflammation, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry by researchers at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

«The field now has two independent reports — our study and a 2015 report by Setiawan and colleagues in Toronto — showing essentially the same thing: that there is evidence for inflammation, more specifically microglial activation, in the brains of living patients during a major depressive episode,» said Dr. Talbot.

Autism, meanwhile, has been linked to brain inflammation, microglial cell activation, cytokine imbalances, and autoimmunity.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now demonstrate in a paper published in Nature that a well - known family of enzymes can prevent the inflammation and thus constitute a potential target for drugs.Research suggests that microglial cells — the nerve system's primary immune cells — play a critical part in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.