In a new study, researchers from the University of Alberta have found new data on how immune cells change and respond to injury. This could help look for ways to protect the human brain when immune cells start to malfunction.
The team of scientists tried to find out how immune cells behave when brain damage (demyelination) occurs. Animal models were used for this.
It turned out that the loss of myelin did not change when immune cells (microglia) were removed in the later stages of brain damage. Additionally, the trauma associated with multiple sclerosis and microglia in Alzheimer’s disease are very similar. This means that microglial immune cells have characteristic states and functions similar to those that occur in Alzheimer’s disease when white matter is damaged in multiple sclerosis.
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