by Carmen Rotte, Max Planck Society Inflammation occurring in the normal-appearing white matter. (A) Luxol Fast Blue, (B) proteolipid protein, and (C) Kim1p stainings of the optic nerve shows no demyelination or reactive sites, other than from some nodules, with a scale bar of 400nm. (D) Amyloid precursor protein (APP)+ axonal fragments (E) were found in both...
by Universitaet Tübingen Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are associated with inflammatory processes in the brain. German researchers have succeeded in identifying a group of proteins in cerebrospinal fluid that could provide information about such inflammatory processes. As so-called biomarkers, the proteins could help researchers to better understand disease processes in...
