Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

These immune responses help protect brain from the infection, but they can also cause collateral damage—such as the death of nearby neurons. In addition, amyloid-β, produced by nearby neurons, may be ...

A seven-year-old girl, who spent Christmas Day in hospital after a suspected ear infection turned out to be a severe blood clot on her brain, is now urging people to support the medics that saved ...

Neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell, home in to areas of injury and inflammation to fight infections ... brain barrier, and although these cells are not typically attracted to ...

While infection of neurons is the hallmark of bona fide neurotropic viruses such as rabies and some herpesviruses, the possibility that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 could infect neurons or glial cells ...

These findings could lead to new treatments targeting infections and the brain's immune response. "Our study challenges the conventional view of tau as solely harmful, showing that it may ...

In postmortem tissue from AD patients, they found that those who had a particular type of activated microglia in the brain also had human cytomegalovirus infections in the brain, vagal nerve, and gut.