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SUBMITTER: Jeong HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3015156 | biostudies-other | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Experimental & molecular medicine 20101201 12
It has been suggested that brain inflammation is important in aggravation of brain damage and/or that inflammation causes neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease (PD). Recently, systemic inflammation has also emerged as a risk factor for PD. In the present study, we evaluated how systemic inflammation induced by intravenous (iv) lipopolysaccharides (LPS) injection affected brain inflammation and neuronal damage in the rat. Interestingly, almost all brain inflammatory responses, ...[more]