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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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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) and neurodegenerative disorders.

TL;DR: Current knowledge on mechanisms underlying the beneficial effect of PPAR-γ in different neurodegenerative diseases are reviewed, and it is concluded that PPar-γ agonists represent a novel class of drugs for treating neuroinflammatory diseases.
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Increased plasma levels of BDNF and inflammatory markers in Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: The increase in BDNF levels might reflect a compensatory mechanism against early neurodegeneration and seems to be related to inflammation, and sTNFR1 appears to mark not only the inflammatory state but also differentiates between MCI and AD, which may be an additional tool for differentiating degrees of cognitive impairment.
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Statins--a cure-all for the brain?

TL;DR: Animal studies and observational clinical studies have indicated that statins might also be effective in treating certain neurological diseases — in particular, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and ischaemic stroke; however, results from ongoing prospective, randomized clinical trials are not available.
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Microglial transplantation increases amyloid-β clearance in Alzheimer model rats

TL;DR: The transplanted rat microglia into the rat lateral ventricle just after intra‐hippocampal Aβ injection, and the contribution of exogenousmicroglia to Aβ clearance were investigated, suggesting the possible usefulness of exogeneous microglias to the therapeutic approach in AD.
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Differential effect of APOE genotype on amyloid load and glucose metabolism in AD dementia

TL;DR: Findings suggest that APOE genotype has a differential effect on the distribution of amyloid plaques and glucose metabolism in the same Alzheimer disease dementia patients, which may have important implications for emerging therapies that aim to directly intervene in the disease process.
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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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