Bird Flu Monitor > Avian flu promotes Parkinson's? :The Scientist [10th August 2009]

[Life Science news presented by The Scientist] Parkinson's patients normally lose between 50-80% of their dopamine-producing neurons, and the loss in Smeyne's mice suggests a predisposition to the disease, he said. Although all traces of the virus were cleared from the brain after about 20 days, the virus appeared to have caused a prolonged activation of microglial cells, the immune cells that mediate inflammation in the brain.

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