Tag: Brain
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Dementia, a prologue to Alzheimer’s, and potential therapeutic targets
Imagine your brain as a library. Each book stacked on the shelves of this humongous, complex, intricately designed library is an individual memory. Strangely, all the books are pretty much within your reach, but then something sinister starts to happen. Slowly and gradually each book starts getting placed on the topmost shelf. You tiptoe and…
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Host microbiota affects the brain’s innate immune system
“I’m Gonna Make Him an Offer He Can’t Refuse.” -Don Vito Corleone It could be a quote from a dialogue between the host microbiota and the host immune system… Let’s figure it out step by step. Did you know that beneficial microorganisms live in and on our bodies? An adult human body consists of approximately…
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Alteration of Immune Metabolism Restores Memory at Old Age
What is a scary but perpetual process that every living organism goes through? Ageing! We become aware of it from a very young age– looking at people growing older, having reduced quality of life, and forgetting things. We have always flirted with the idea of youth till death through works of art, whether it is…
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