Scientists have spotted a new variety of riled-up microglia that drives swelling in the human brain. In the November 18 Neuron, researchers from China led by Haixiao Liu, Shunnan Ge, and Yan Qu at ...
In the last five years, neuronal pentraxins have emerged as potential markers of synaptic loss. In the case of NPTX2, researchers may now be able to explain why. In the March 29 Science Translational ...
New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory shows that blocking the protein PTP1B in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease reactivates microglia, the brain’s immune cells, to clear amyloid-β plaques ...