The brain, traditionally considered an immune-privileged organ due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB), has its own sophisticated immune defense system.

They found that microglia became "inflamed" when interacting with HSV ... a crucial step towards developing treatments to ...

Understanding the role of microglia is helping scientists work toward improved treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers at CU Anschutz offer new insights into the long-term effects of HSV-1 infection. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV ...

Transplanting microglia derived from human stem cells into mice reveals new possibilities for treating neurodegenerative eye diseases.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the cause of the common cold sore, can spread into the central nervous system and ...

Many people don’t know just how common the virus that causes cold sores is in society. Unfortunately, the news just got worse ...

anti-inflammatory polarization of microglia, and functional improvement in preclinical models of spinal cord injury, stroke, ...

Research has shown that HSV-1, the virus responsible for cold sores, can spread into specific areas of the brain and may ...

In healthy rodent brains, newborn neurons are constantly generated in the stem cell niche, known as the subventricular zone ...

Researchers have studied what happens immediately after a stroke in the stem cell niche known as the subventricular zone, ...

Researchers at the University of Freiburg have studied what happens immediately after a stroke in the stem cell niche known as the subventricular zone, using a mouse model.