Restoring brain immune balance opens new avenue for Alzheimer's treatment

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Professor Minah Suh of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, in collaboration with the biotechnology company IMNEWRUN and Professor Ho-Keun Kwon's team at Yonsei University College of Medicine, has identified a mechanism by which modulating an immune protein in the brain can restore a disrupted brain immune environment and reduce abnormally elevated neuronal activity in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease.