neuroinflammation
- noun
- /ˌnʊroʊˌɪnfləˈmeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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neuroinflamación
- Neuroinflammation has been recognized to play an important role in AD and involves chronic activation of microglia and astrocytes in brain regions affected by AD pathology 1-3.
Examples
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Interestingly, findings suggest that the protein Lipocalin 2 (Lcn2) may be involved in both neuroinflammation and iron regulation, and might contribute to AD pathology.
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Cytokines contribute to nearly all aspects of neuroinflammation.
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I am, however, interested in knowing why you feel neuroinflammation is not important to autism.
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No, it's not, because the connection between "neuroinflammation" and autism is tenuous at best.
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Cytokines contribute to nearly all aspects of neuroinflammation.
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These results, along with the fact that adjustment for lead levels did not confound the results in our study, suggest that either other metals such as manganese, or the combined effect of different metals, could be involved in the underlying neuroinflammation caused by air pollution.
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Besides aggregation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) and tau, it has become clear that Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is also characterized by neuroinflammation and iron dysregulation.
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Severe air pollution, Calderon finds, leads to neuroinflammation and damages the brain's white matter.
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Working out can lower the activation of microglia, the immune cells in the brain that cause neuroinflammation.
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
neuroinflammation = inflammation (semi-transparent) = neuro + inflammation
The meaning is compositionally clear from 'neuro' plus 'inflammation', but the term is a specialized scientific label rather than everyday vocabulary.
Etymology
Neuroinflammation combines neuro- ('nerve') and inflammation ('swelling' or the body's reaction to injury). So, neuroinflammation means swelling or the body's defence in nerve tissue, such as the brain or spinal cord, which is why it often appears in disease or after injury.