Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Inflammatory changes in the brain twenty years before Alzheimer onset

Inflammatory changes in the brain twenty years before Alzheimer onset:

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Roughly twenty years before the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear, inflammatory changes in the brain can be seen, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the medical scientific journal Brain. The findings of the researchers, who monitored several pathological changes in the brain, suggest that activation of astrocytes at an early stage can greatly influence the development of the disease.


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