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TLR2 knockout protects against diabetes-mediated changes in cerebral perfusion and cognitive deficits.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Jun 2017
Hardigan Trevor, Hernandez Caterina, Ward Rebecca, Hoda M Nasrul, Ergul Adviye
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The risk of cognitive decline in diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2) is significantly greater compared with normoglycemic patients, and the risk of developing dementia in diabetic patients is doubled. The etiology for this is likely multifactorial, but one mechanism that has gained increasing attention is decreased cerebral perfusion as a result of cerebrovascular dysfunction. The innate immune system has been shown to...
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