Dangerous custodians: Immune cells as possible nerve-cell killers in Alzheimer's disease
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
Progressive dementia of Alzheimer's patients is due to an inexorable loss of nerve cells from the brain. German neuroscientists have now shown that microglia may actually make a significant contribution to the loss of neurons associated with Alzheimer's disease.