Sex Delta by Cell Type. In men with Alzheimer’s (top left), B cells (red boxes) were fewer (blue), while NK cells (blue boxes ...

Erythropoietin-producing hepatoma (Eph) receptors, including EphA4, are expressed on the cell surface and involved in brain development, which involves extensive pruning of synapses. A variant in ...

Autoimmunity and Alzheimer’s. People with autoimmune disorders in the UCSF (left) and Stanford medical systems (right) were ...

The fragments also directly compromise synapses they encounter along the way, according to a preprint posted February 24 on bioRxiv. Specifically, tau fragments containing the microtubule binding ...

The blood-CSF barrier has been far less studied than the blood-brain barrier. Scientists have detected age-related changes in ...

Bottlebrush Barrier. The glycocalyx layer (purple, left) that coats brain blood vessels consists of numerous glycoproteins, ...

In the February 10 Nature Medicine, scientists led by Jorge Llibre-Guerra and Randall Bateman at Washington University, St.

“This is a wonderful piece of work,” said Henrik Zetterberg at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was not involved in the research. “It now seems possible to use [plasma p-Tau217] to track the ...