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Interleukin-1, nitric oxide and reactive astrocytes.
Brain, behavior, and immunity - 1 Dec 1995
Lee S C, Dickson D W, Brosnan C F
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Recent work in many laboratories has revealed that cytokines are important mediators of inflammation, host defense, and tissue injury in a variety of neurological diseases. A role for astrocytes and microglia in these diseases has been considered pivotal, since both cell types readily produce and respond to cytokines in vitro and show morphologic and immunocytochemical evidence for activation in vivo. Although...
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