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Age-associated dysregulation of microglial activation is coupled with enhanced blood-brain barrier permeability and pathology in APP/PS1 mice.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jun 2014
Minogue Aedín M, Jones Raasay S, Kelly Ronan J, McDonald Claire L, Connor Thomas J, Lynch Marina A
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Aging adversely affects inflammatory processes in the brain, which has important implications in the context of disease progression. It has been proposed that microglia become dysfunctional with age and may lose their neuroprotective properties leading to chronic neurodegeneration. Here, we sought to characterize inflammatory changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease and to delineate differences between...
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