New insights into how brain responds to viral infection
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
March 31, 2009, New York, NY--Scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have discovered that astrocytes, supportive cells in the brain that are not derived from an immune cell lineage, respond to a molecule that mimics a viral infection using cellular machinery similar to that used by classical immune cells in the blood.