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Specific Brain T Cells Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's Dx & What Do Hormones Have To Do With This?
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Specific Brain T Cells Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's Dx & What Do Hormones Have To Do With This?

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devaki berkson
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I love St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and put them in my will. St. Jude scientists found that a subset of CD8+ T cells in the brain lessens the activation of microglia and limits disease pathology in a model of Alzheimer's disease.

What activates these protective T cells in the brain? Estrogen.

As many as 5.8 million Americans are currently living …

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