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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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Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels

TL;DR: In searching for T-cell gateways into and out of the meninges, functional lymphatic vessels lining the dural sinuses are discovered, which may call for a reassessment of basic assumptions in neuroimmunology and sheds new light on the aetiology of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases associated with immune system dysfunction.
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Mechanisms underlying inflammation in neurodegeneration.

TL;DR: There is evidence for a remarkable convergence in the mechanisms responsible for the sensing, transduction, and amplification of inflammatory processes that result in the production of neurotoxic mediators in neurodegenerative diseases.
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Effects of transforming growth factor-beta on murine astrocyte glutamine synthetase activity. Implications in neuronal injury.

TL;DR: It is suggested that TGF-beta impairs astrocyte GS function and enhances neurotoxicity, thus providing insight into understanding one mechanism of cytokine-mediated central nervous system disease.
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Occurrence of Interleukin-6 in Cortical Plaques of Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Precede Transformation of Diffuse into Neuritic Plaquesa

TL;DR: Data is presented on the appearance of IL‐6 immunoreactivity in AD plaques according to the stage of plaque formation, which shows diffuse plaques were the predominant plaque type, whereas primitive plaques formed the larger proportion of lesions in the group of AD brains.
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Neuroglial-mediated immunoinflammatory responses in Alzheimer's disease: complement activation and therapeutic approaches

TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to inhibit A beta-induced complement activation without affecting the normal immunoglobulin-mediated complement pathway, indicating that it should be feasible to develop drugs to reduce complement damage in AD without compromising this important immune-defense mechanism throughout the body.
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Superoxide Release and NADPH Oxidase Components in Mature Human Phagocytes: Correlation between Functional Capacity and Amount of Functional Proteins

TL;DR: An overall positive interrelationship between protein content and its responsible function is indicated, though only gp91-phox was not associated with the functional capacity and low amounts of this component supported the increased respiratory burst activity of eosinophils.
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Toxicity of human THP-1 monocytic cells towards neuron-like cells is reduced by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

TL;DR: A neurotoxicity assay based on the property of supernatant media from stimulated human monocytic THP-1 cells to cause human neuroblastoma cell death is developed, establishing the validity of the assay for simulating neurotoxicity in human brain.
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