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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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Immunology and immunotherapy of Alzheimer's disease

TL;DR: Clinical trials of active amyloid-β vaccination of patients with Alzheimer's disease were discontinued after some patients developed meningoencephalitis, and new immunotherapies using humoral and cell-based approaches are currently being investigated for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Vascular risk factors, cognitve decline, and dementia

TL;DR: Vascular risk factors and their treatments are a promising avenue of research for prevention of dementia, and further long-term, placebo-controlled, randomized studies, need to be performed.
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Microglia and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.

TL;DR: A comprehensive and critical look at the overall evidence supporting the neuroinflammation hypothesis and points out some weaknesses is taken, and evidence for an alternative theory, the microglial dysfunction hypothesis, is reviewed, which offers a different perspective on the identity of activated microglia and their role in AD pathogenesis.
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Increased T cell reactivity to amyloid β protein in older humans and patients with Alzheimer disease

TL;DR: The occurrence of intrinsic T cell reactivity to the self-antigen Abeta in humans has implications for the design of Abeta vaccines, may itself be linked to AD susceptibility and course, and appears to be associated with the aging process.
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Biomarkers of neurodegeneration for diagnosis and monitoring therapeutics

TL;DR: Progress in the development and validation of biomarkers to improve the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders is focused on.
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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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