Microglia & the Brain's Immune System
The Agenda with Steve Paikin -- Interview with writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Feb. 2021)
It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine,, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness. Nakazawa joins to discuss her book, "The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine."
"Microglia are involved in first line innate immunity of the CNS [Central Nervous System].... When activated, microglia can be potent immune effector cells, able to perform a broad range of functions, and they mediate both innate and adaptive responses during CNS injury and disease while remaining quiescent in the steady state."
Nov 18, 2009
The Role of Microglia in Central Nervous System Immunity ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine,, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness. Nakazawa joins to discuss her book, "The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine."
"Microglia are involved in first line innate immunity of the CNS [Central Nervous System].... When activated, microglia can be potent immune effector cells, able to perform a broad range of functions, and they mediate both innate and adaptive responses during CNS injury and disease while remaining quiescent in the steady state."
Nov 18, 2009
The Role of Microglia in Central Nervous System Immunity ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov