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Determining the role of IL-4 induced neuroinflammation in microglial activity and amyloid-β using BV2 microglial cells and APP/PS1 transgenic mice.
Journal of neuroinflammation - 4 Mar 2015
Latta Clare H, Sudduth Tiffany L, Weekman Erica M, Brothers Holly M, Abner Erin L, Popa Gabriel J, Mendenhall Michael D, Gonzalez-Oregon Floracita, Braun Kaitlyn, Wilcock Donna M
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BACKGROUND: Microglia are considered the resident immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS). In response to harmful stimuli, an inflammatory reaction ensues in which microglia are activated in a sequenced spectrum of pro- and antiinflammatory phenotypes that are akin to the well-characterized polarization states of peripheral macrophages. A "classically" activated M1 phenotype is known to eradicate...
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