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A lot of folks are focusing on the title, but I think this is the most interesting part: > When they gave the mice a chemical that inhibited inflammation, neit
by neuronexmachina 10y ago
A lot of folks are focusing on the title, but I think this is the most interesting part:
> When they gave the mice a chemical that inhibited inflammation, neither the brain-cell problem nor the depressive symptoms went away. But the memory loss and inflammatory macrophages did disappear.
>And that led them to conclude that the post-stress memory trouble is directly linked to inflammation — and the immune system — rather than to other damage to the brain. That type of information can pave the way for immune-based treatments, Godbout said.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoTo me, it feels like inflammation is the new cholesterol.
- unclebucknasty 10y agoYeah, whenever we declare all out war on something, it's pretty much a guarantee of future recantations. A lot of it seems to run along the lines of confusing correlation with causation.
- summarite 10y agoIt's an interesting term that seems to mean something when in reality we understand little about the mechanism and effects. But good to keep researching it, i suppose.
- niels_olson 10y agoAh, cholesterol plaques in arteries are in fact the ghost of inflammation past, and specifically macrophage-mediated inflammation. In medicine this is far from a departure from the prevailing hypothesis -- it is a consolidation of multiple lines of evidence.