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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-7
pubmed:abstractText
Inflammation clearly occurs in pathologically vulnerable regions of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, and it does so with the full complexity of local peripheral inflammatory responses. In the periphery, degenerating tissue and the deposition of highly insoluble abnormal materials are classical stimulants of inflammation. Likewise, in the AD brain damaged neurons and neurites and highly insoluble amyloid beta peptide deposits and neurofibrillary tangles provide obvious stimuli for inflammation. Because these stimuli are discrete, microlocalized, and present from early preclinical to terminal stages of AD, local upregulation of complement, cytokines, acute phase reactants, and other inflammatory mediators is also discrete, microlocalized, and chronic. Cumulated over many years, direct and bystander damage from AD inflammatory mechanisms is likely to significantly exacerbate the very pathogenic processes that gave rise to it. Thus, animal models and clinical studies, although still in their infancy, strongly suggest that AD inflammation significantly contributes to AD pathogenesis. By better understanding AD inflammatory and immunoregulatory processes, it should be possible to develop anti-inflammatory approaches that may not cure AD but will likely help slow the progression or delay the onset of this devastating disorder.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0197-4580
pubmed:author
pubmed-author:AkiyamaHH, pubmed-author:BargerSS, pubmed-author:BarnumSS, pubmed-author:BauerJJ, pubmed-author:BradyEE, pubmed-author:CooperN RNR, pubmed-author:DODDR HRH, pubmed-author:EikelenboomPP, pubmed-author:EmmerlingMM, pubmed-author:FiebichB LBL, pubmed-author:FinchC ECE, pubmed-author:FrautschySS, pubmed-author:GriffinW SWS, pubmed-author:HampelHH, pubmed-author:HullMM, pubmed-author:LandrethGG, pubmed-author:LucJJ, pubmed-author:MackenzieI RIR, pubmed-author:McGeerP LPL, pubmed-author:MrakRR, pubmed-author:O'BanionM KMK, pubmed-author:PachterJJ, pubmed-author:PasinettiGG, pubmed-author:Plata-SalamanCC, pubmed-author:RogersJJ, pubmed-author:RydenPP, pubmed-author:ShenYY, pubmed-author:StreibEE, pubmed-author:StrohmeyerRR, pubmed-author:TooyomaII, pubmed-author:Van MuiswinkelF LFL, pubmed-author:VeerhuisRR, pubmed-author:WalkerDD, pubmed-author:WebsterSS, pubmed-author:WegrzyniakBB, pubmed-author:WennBB, pubmed-author:Wyss-CorayTT
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
383-421
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Sun Health Research Institute, 10515 West Santa Fe Drive, P.O. Box 1278, 85372, Sun City, AZ, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't