Rockefeller University: "Exhausted" Immune Cells May Drive Alzheimer's
January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024
NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news:
Mice reach the twilight of their lives at around age two, the rough equivalent of 80 in human years. And when researchers introduce specific mutations into mice and then age them up, the mice can grow forgetful and irritable--eventually exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's disease not unlike that of many elderly humans. Now, new research demonstrates that microglia, the immune cells of the brain, wither away . . .
Mice reach the twilight of their lives at around age two, the rough equivalent of 80 in human years. And when researchers introduce specific mutations into mice and then age them up, the mice can grow forgetful and irritable--eventually exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's disease not unlike that of many elderly humans. Now, new research demonstrates that microglia, the immune cells of the brain, wither away . . .