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 Brain Structure Assists In Immune Response

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Date posted: 31/01/2009

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body's immune response to a parasitic infection, toxoplasma, in the brain.

The findings provide unexpected insights into how immune cells are regulated in the brain and have implications for treatment of any inflammatory condition that affects the brain.

The research suggests that in the brain, specialized structures are induced by inflammation that guide migration of T cells in this immune-privileged environment and allow them to perform a search-and-destroy type of mission required to find abnormal cells or microbes with the brain.

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