Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Bacteria Keeps the Brain Healthy: Study : LIFE : Tech Times

Bacteria Keeps the Brain Healthy: Study : LIFE : Tech Times: Microbes in our body -- helping us in everything from maintaining the immune system to digesting our food -- have also been discovered to protect our brains from harmful pathogens, researchers say.

They do that by helping close the so-called blood-brain barrier, the molecular "fence" protecting the brain from pathogens and other molecules that might harm it, they found.

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