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Drug library screen identifies inhibitors of toxic astrogliosis
2020-09-18
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Objective</h4> Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neuroinflammatory disorder, in which activated immune cells directly or indirectly induce demyelination and axonal degradation. Inflammatory stimuli also change the phenotype of astrocytes, making them neurotoxic. The resulting ‘toxic astrocyte’ phenotype has been observed in animal models of neuroinflammation and in multiple sclerosis lesions. Proteins secreted b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 855c1b21-817b-5d9a-a330-494eb750aff9
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.15.20195016
