Common virus could be behind Alzheimer’s in some people, scientists say - Herpes virus may linger in gut and travel to brain ...

Microglia can partially break down amyloid plaques by "spitting" a digestive enzyme at them, a new study has found.

Researchers have discovered a link between a chronic gut infection caused by a common virus and the development of ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's ...

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...

Microglia have been revealed to first help spread Alzheimer’s disease pathology across the brain and then activate to limit ...

Cornell researchers discovered that brain immune cells, called microglia, can partially break down Alzheimer’s amyloid ...

Researchers with the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have unveiled a critical ...

Immune cells in the brain called microglia can partially break down large amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease by latching on to ...

Researchers identified a stress-induced microglial pathway that accelerates Alzheimer’s disease by releasing toxic lipids ...

Microglia are known to play an important role in Alzheimer's disease, but exactly what they do has remained a mystery. Scientists in the Bart De Strooper Lab at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain ...

Gut-Brain Connection. People who have CD83+ microglia in their brains also have HCMV (top left) and IgG4 (top right) in their ...