neuroimmunity
neuroimmunity noun: immunity from neural damage.
Noun
neuroimmunity (uncountable)
- immunity from neural damage
- Compared with vehicle-treated controls, rapamycin protected against the tau-induced neuronal loss, synaptotoxicity, reactive microgliosis and astrogliosis, and activation of innate neuroimmunity.2015 November 6, “The mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin Mitigates Perforant Pathway Neurodegeneration and Synapse Loss in a Mouse Model of Early-Stage Alzheimer-Type Tauopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin of neuroimmunity
From neuro- + immunity.
Words formed from neuroimmunity
Questions about neuroimmunity
- What does neuroimmunity mean?
- Neuroimmunity means immunity from neural damage.
- What part of speech is neuroimmunity?
- Neuroimmunity is a noun.
Words near neuroimmunity in the dictionary
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