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Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease.

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By better understanding AD inflammatory and immunoregulatory processes, it should be possible to develop anti-inflammatory approaches that may not cure AD but will likely help slow the progression or delay the onset of this devastating disorder.
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This article is published in Neurobiology of Aging.The article was published on 2000-05-01. It has received 4319 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alzheimer's disease & Neuroinflammation.

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Characterization of ionotropic glutamate receptors in human lymphocytes.

TL;DR: Human lymphocytes express ionotropic Glu receptors functionally operating as modulators of cell activation, and Glu effect showed a bell‐shape concentration‐dependent relationship.
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Impact of Cytokines and Chemokines on Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathological Hallmarks.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the role of cytokines and chemokines in AD-associated pathologies, and summarizes the potential anti-inflammatory therapeutic approaches aimed at preventing or slowing down disease progression.
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Inflammation, apoptosis, and Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the mechanisms by which neurons are lost in AD and the role microglial proinflammatory products play in neuronal death.
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Nerve growth factor metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome

TL;DR: The recent evidence supporting a CNS deficit in the extracellular metabolism of NGF, both in AD and in DS brains is discussed, including the nature of this trophic disconnection and its implication for the atrophy of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons.
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Sensory circumventricular organs in health and disease

TL;DR: This review highlights recent investigations that show that the CVOs and related structures are involved in pathological conditions such as sepsis, stress, trypanosomiasis, autoimmune encephalitis, systemic amyloidosis and prion infections, while detailed information on their role in other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease or multiple sclerosis is lacking.
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Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs

TL;DR: Experiments with guinea-pig lung suggest that some of the therapeutic effects of sodium salicylate and aspirin-like drugs are due to inhibition of the synthesis of prostaglandins.
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TGF-beta signal transduction.

TL;DR: The transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) family of growth factors control the development and homeostasis of most tissues in metazoan organisms and mutations in these pathways are the cause of various forms of human cancer and developmental disorders.
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An endotoxin-induced serum factor that causes necrosis of tumors

TL;DR: It is proposed that TNF mediates endotoxin-induced tumor necrosis, and that it may be responsible for the suppression of transformed cells by activated macrophages.
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Chemokines — Chemotactic Cytokines That Mediate Inflammation

TL;DR: This review introduces the burgeoning family of cytokines, with special emphasis on their role in the pathophysiology of disease and their potential as targets for therapy.
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An Antidiabetic Thiazolidinedione Is a High Affinity Ligand for Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ)

TL;DR: It is reported that thiazolidinediones are potent and selective activators of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily recently shown to function in adipogenesis, and raised the intriguing possibility that PPARγ is a target for the therapeutic actions of this class of compounds.
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