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Alzheimer’s Brain Damage May Begin Outside the Brain

A study found that immune cells that drive neurodegeneration, the progressive damage and loss of nerve cells, originate in the body’s lymph nodes. In mice whose brains accumulate clumps of tau protein, researchers found a way to protect nerve cells without clearing away those clumps. They interrupted an immune response directed from outside the brain, [...]
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