The study is published as the cover article in the April 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal.. New insights into the brain’s response to viral infectionScientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have found that responding astrocyte support cells in brain derived from an derived from an immune system cell line, a molecule that mimics a viral infection with cellular machinery similar to classical immune cells in the blood used. While scientists have been aware capacity of astrocytes an innate immune response trigger when encountering a foreign agent, this work provides a new understanding of the complex mechanisms responsible for the induction and regulation of inflammation in the brain and has serious implications for both the diagnosis and treatment of infections of the brain.
To contain the the course of the experiment and to neutralize a virus that penetrated the barrier of the central nervous system cause is unknown. Immune mediators from astrocytes cells and other tissues in the vicinity and cause hurt has additional life-threatening inflammation. Continue reading