AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research

86 - Treatments Targeting the Immune System & Glia in Alzheimer's Disease: September 2020

Episode Summary

Happy New Year from the AMiNDR team! In our first episode of 2021, Abdullah presents on the modulation of inflammatory response in AD, with a big emphasis on microglia, the forgotten heroes in his mind, they clean, repair and protect your brain. Hopefully by the end of the episode you’ll know more about why changing their behaviour could be the treatment we are looking for. Sections in this episode: Targeting NLRP3: 2:00 Favouring M2 over M1 for microglia: 5:57 Other: 11:00

Episode Notes

Happy New Year from the AMiNDR team! In our first episode of 2021, Abdullah presents on the modulation of inflammatory response in AD, with a big emphasis on microglia, the forgotten heroes in his mind, they clean, repair and protect your brain. Hopefully by the end of the episode you’ll know more about why changing their behaviour could be the treatment we are looking for.  

 

Sections in this episode:  

Targeting NLRP3: 2:00  

Favouring M2 over M1 for microglia: 5:57  

Other: 11:00 

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Today's episode was scripted by Abdullah Iqbal and Vee Balendra, hosted by Abdullah Iqbal, and reviewed  and edited by Sarah Louadi. Big thanks to Elyn Rowe and Jacques Ferreira for sorting all the papers published in September 2020 into themes for our episodes, and props to the team that works very hard behind the scenes to make all this possible. 

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