High-Fat Diet Prompts Immune Cells to Start Eating Connections between Neurons (IMAGE)

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

High-Fat Diet Prompts Immune Cells to Start Eating Connections between Neurons

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When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to become sedentary and start consuming the connections between our neurons, according to Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan, neuroscientist in the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia.

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GRU Senior Photographer, Phil Jones.

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