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

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

A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer ’s disease, a new study has ...

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

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

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

The study, published in the journal Neuron, emphasizes the dual role of microglia in the brain. While they act as first ...

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

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 ...

Discover how stressed-out immune cells in the brain may be the key culprit behind the development of Alzheimer's disease.

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

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