Wu and colleagues confirmed that cultured-microglia-carrying lipid droplets struggled with phagocytosis, poorly engulfing ...

Stationed within the meninges, squads of immune cells lie in wait, ready to unleash an inflammatory assault within the brain if needed. Holding these trigger-happy troops back during peacetime falls ...

New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise could be a powerful tool in reducing the biological signs associated ...

The rats in the exercise group also showed fewer activated microglia, a type of immune cells, in the hippocampus. Dysfunction of microglial cells is typically observed in old age, and exercise may ...

A new study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity has found that inflammation in a key memory center of the brain can ...

The activation of microglia/macrophages ... Coronal cryostat sections were cut at the level of striatum and hippocampus. The 8-µm thick sections were thaw-mounted on Polysine- (Mentzel-Gläser ...

Established microglia cultures of both SAMR1 and SAMP8 consisted of ... Blood was allowed to clot at 4°C for 30 min and centrifuged to obtain serum. The cerebral cortex and hippocampus were ...

Microglia activation and proliferation are hallmarks of many ... The number of Iba-1 + cells from the medial prefrontal cortex, cortex and hippocampus were counted using ImageJ (NIH). Further data ...

The link between gut microbiome and eating behaviours, especially palatable food intake, is a growing focus of scientific ...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos ...

The average college student holds a job while enrolled, often to pay for their education or support their future financial health. Offering on-campus employment opportunities is one way for ...