by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Public Domain Researchers at Karolinska Institutet describe the relationship between infectious agents and dementia in an article recently published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. Bacterial infections of the brain and neurodegenerative diseases represent two pathologies that are commonly considered far away from each other. “The article sheds light on the relationship between infectious diseases,...
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How neuronal cell death occurs in bacterial meningitis
by Karolinska Institutet Gram stain of meningococci from a culture showing Gram negative (pink) bacteria, often in pairs. Credit: public domain Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, and The Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University have conducted research within the field of bacterial meningitis and found how bacteria interact with neurons, causing neuronal cell death. The results of their...