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Clinical Investigation

CNS Inflammation

Inflammatory brain disease, also referred to as inflammatory disease of the central nervous system is a condition where the brain and/or spinal cord become inflamed. Inflammation in the brain causes irritation and swelling of brain tissue or blood vessels. Brain inflammation can occur for a spread of reasons. How the vessels within the brain become inflamed isn't entirely clear. In some vasculitic ailments, irregular antibodies (autoantibodies) assault white platelets, which assault vessel dividers and cause aggravation and pulverization of the vessel divider. Disease brought about by a plague additionally can cause CNS vasculitis. Aerobic exercise is employed widely to scale back inflammation within the periphery. Exercise has been shown to decrease proliferation of microglia in the brain, decrease hippocampal expression of immune-related genes, and reduce expression of inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α. There is an increasing recognition that inflammation plays a critical role in neurodegenerative diseases of the CNS, including Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and therefore the prototypic neuroinflammatory disease multiple sclerosis (MS). Differential immune responses involving the adaptive versus the innate system are observed at various stages of neurodegenerative diseases, and should not only drive disease processes but could serve as therapeutic targets. On-going investigations into the precise inflammatory mechanisms that play roles in disease causation and progression have revealed lessons about inflammation-driven neurodegeneration which will be applied to other neurodegenerative diseases. An increasing number of immunotherapeutic strategies that are successful in MS are now being applied to other neurodegenerative diseases. Some approaches suppress CNS immune mechanisms, while others harness the system to clear deleterious products and cells. This Review focuses on the mechanisms by which inflammation, mediated either by the peripheral immune reaction or by endogenous CNS immune mechanisms, can affect CNS neurodegeneration.

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