Potential Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic target identified in brain immune cells

Tim-3 is an immune checkpoint molecule involved in immunity and inflammation recently linked to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but its role in the brain was unknown until now. In a paper published in Nature, researchers from Mass General Brigham used preclinical models to uncover Tim-3’s role in microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, and have identified it as a promising therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s disease.

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