How the Brain Communicates with the Immune System

Brain injuries including stroke, physical trauma and inflammation can be made worse by immune cells flooding into the damaged brain area. Now, new research sheds light on the underlying mechanism by which the brain triggers this peripheral immune system response. A better understanding of the process could lead to therapies that improve brain injury recovery time by controlling the secondary damage caused by immune cells.Read the whole article at Bionengineering Today: How the Brain Communicates with the Immune System.