Your Brain Parasite Isn't Making You Sick -- Here's Why (IMAGE)
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"Understanding pathways like this could be beneficial for other diseases involving neuroinflammation," researcher Samantha J. Batista said. "We can ask whether promoting this pathway is helpful in situations where you need more of an immune presence in the brain, such as infections or cancers, and also whether inhibiting this molecule could be helpful in diseases driven by too much neuroinflammation, like multiple sclerosis. Targeting one specific pathway like this one could have less off-target effects than targeting inflammation more broadly."
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