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BioMed Central, Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, 1(7), 2015

DOI: 10.1186/s13195-015-0126-1

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Post-mortem analysis of neuroinflammatory changes in human Alzheimer’s disease

Journal article published in 2015 by Diego Gomez-Nicola ORCID, Delphine Boche
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Abstract

Since the genome-wide association studies in Alzheimer’s disease have highlighted inflammation as a driver of the disease rather than a consequence of the ongoing neurodegeneration, numerous studies have been performed to identify specific immune profiles associated with healthy, ageing, or diseased brain. However, these studies have been performed mainly in in vitro or animal models, which recapitulate only some aspects of the pathophysiology of human Alzheimer’s disease. In this review, we discuss the availability of human post-mortem tissue through brain banks, the limitations associated with its use, the technical tools available, and the neuroimmune aspects to explore in order to validate in the human brain the experimental observations arising from animal models.