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1/ These new interesting insights could provide answers for #MEcfs and #LongCovid.
"Researchers tracked antigens and other substances crossing the arachnoid barrier (known for his impermeability) but they found leaks in this particular area" #LeakyBrain
quantamagazine.org/how-the-immune…
"Researchers tracked antigens and other substances crossing the arachnoid barrier (known for his impermeability) but they found leaks in this particular area" #LeakyBrain
quantamagazine.org/how-the-immune…
2/ "Immune cells are waiting there. When these cells find a worrisome antigen, like one that suggests disease, they initiate a chain reaction that creates an immune response" #NeuroImmunology
3/ “Immune surveillance of the brain takes place. It’s absolutely normal, like in any other tissue,” said Jonathan Kipnis. “The only exception is that instead of this happening within the tissue, the brain pushed all its immune activity to its borders.”
