University of Freiburg professor honored for groundbreaking results on the brain’s immune system – News-Medical.Net

The blood-brain barrier is an impenetrable barrier between the circulating blood and the brain established before birth that prevents immune cells from entering the brain from the body’s immune system. Thus, the brain has its own immune system with a key actor called microglia.
As wardens and housekeepers, the microglia play a central role in both monitoring and defending the brain and maintaining its normal functions. At the start of his career, German professor Marco Prinz became fascinated by…

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