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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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Glucocorticoid toxicity in the hippocampus: in vitro demonstration.

TL;DR: This report suggests that GCs directly endanger hippocampal neurons, and suggests that a critical feature of the action of GCs on neurons might be the inhibition of glucose utilization (which is a hallmark of peripheral GC action).
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Chemotaxis by a CNS macrophage, the microglia.

TL;DR: The ability of microglia to migrate in response to inflammatory mediators suggests that these cells can move to sites of injury, thereby enabling them to participate in an inflammatory response.
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The role of activated astrocytes and of the neurotrophic cytokine S100B in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease

TL;DR: Astrocytic overexpression of S100B in the neuritic plaques of Alzheimer's disease correlates with the degree of neuritic pathology in Abeta plaques in this disease, suggesting a pathogenic role for S 100B's neurotrophic properties in the evolution of these lesions.
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Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Production by Astrocytes: Autocrine Regulation by IL-6 and the Soluble IL-6 Receptor

TL;DR: IL-6/sIL- 6R and OSM play an important role in the regulation of IL-6 expression within the CNS, particularly in conjunction with the proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-1β.
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Potentiation of excitotoxicity in transgenic mice overexpressing neuronal cyclooxygenase-2.

TL;DR: It is reported that overexpression of neuronal hCOX-2 potentiates the intensity and lethality of kainic acid excitotoxicity in coincidence with potentiation of expression of the immediate early genes c-fos and zif-268.
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