Immune cells prevent and cause brain degeneration

Weizmann Institute’s Professor Michal Schwartz and her team have discovered that immune cells at the edge of the brain travel an extraordinary route to repair brain trauma. In the elderly, the cells no longer do their function, which could open up new treatments for dementia.
http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/gateway-to-the-brain#.UWmh3UoX7KU

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