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University of California - Irvine

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Microglia (green) surround an amyloid plaque (blue) in the brain of an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. UCI researchers have shown that endogenous mouse antibodies (red) associate with microglia in the brains of such mice and boost microglia's ability to degrade plaques.

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Samuel Marsh / UCI

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