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A role for galanin in human and experimental inflammatory demyelination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Sept 2009
Wraith David C, Pope Robert, Butzkueven Helmut, Holder Heidi, Vanderplank Penny, Lowrey Pauline, Day Michael J, Gundlach Andrew L, Kilpatrick Trevor J, Scolding Neil, Wynick David
Abstract excerpt
The neuropeptide galanin is widely expressed by many differing subsets of neurons in the nervous system. There is a marked upregulation in the levels of the peptide in a variety of nerve injury models and in the basal forebrain of humans with Alzheimer's disease. Here we demonstrate that galanin expression is specifically and markedly upregulated in microglia both in multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions and shadow...
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