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Neuroinflammation In Alzheimer's Disease And Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Erica M. Weekman
Neuroinflammation In Alzheimer's Disease And Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Erica M. Weekman
Theses and Dissertations--Physiology
It was once believed that the brain was immunologically privileged with no resident or infiltrating immune cells; however, now it is understood that the cells of the brain are capable of a wide range of inflammatory processes and phenotypes. Inflammation in the brain has been implicated in several disease processes such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID); however, the role of inflammation in these two dementias is poorly understood.
When we stimulated a pro-inflammatory phenotype with an adeno-associated viral vector in a transgenic mouse model of AD that develops Aβ plaques, we saw a pro-inflammatory …