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.
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.