The Brain’s Immune System: Microglia and Inflammation Explained
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This study shows that chronic brain infection with African trypanosomes induces broad meningeal responses resulting in the development of ectopic lymphoid aggregates containing autoreactive B cells; myelin basic protein is one of the autoantigens detected by autoreactive B cells, consistent with the cortical demyelination observed in experimental infections.
@[email protected] Thank you for mentioning this great study!
My vision deteriorated for several months after my 2nd Covid infection, and my eyes hurt when watching from left to right. After reading this article and looking certain things up, I think it must have been neuritis optica!
Mind you, after my first infection I got all sorts of B12-deficiency symptoms, which made me suspect that there was a demyelinating process going on.
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Injecting fractalkine into mouse models of multiple sclerosis increased the number of oligodendrocytes. Findings suggest fractalkine may help to slow the progression, or potentially halt Multiple Sclerosis.
#Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #NeurologicalDiseases #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #Neuroimmunology #Neuroinflammation #Demyelination #DemyelinatingDiseases #MultipleSclerosis #Oligodendrocytes #Fractalkine
https://neurosciencenews.com/multiple-sclerosis-fractslkine-222344/
New research shows that the drug Riluzole, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat certain forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, can at least partially correct the molecular cause of some leukodystrophies.
#Neuroscience #Neurology #NeurologicalDiseases #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #RareDiseases #Leukodystrophies #Demyelination #DemyelinatingDiseases #Riluzole
https://neurosciencenews.com/myelin-neuropharmacology-21997/
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