Independent support for the role of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease
I was very excited to read about research recently published by a group from Stanford regarding the potential role for microglia in Alzheimer’s disease (http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/12/blocking-receptor-in-brains-immune-cells-counters-alzheimers.html). While the work by Karin Andreasson and her team focuses on a receptor protein called EP2, the underlying conclusions of her research – that restoring the activity of microglia to…more »