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What is the biological significance of an age-related increase in IL-1β in hippocampus?

Molecular Psychiatry volume 4, pages 15–18 (1999)Cite this article

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An increase in the concentration of the cytokine, interleukin-1β, induced by age or stress, markedly affects one form of synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus.

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Lynch, M. What is the biological significance of an age-related increase in IL-1β in hippocampus?. Mol Psychiatry 4, 15–18 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000438

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