is the disorder obsessive compulsive, which is usually manifest in more acute form in the mania boot hair. Has been studied in mice that had this mental disorder, resulting in a significant improvement to the marrow transplant.
This shows for the first time that there is a relationship between mental illness and the cells of the immune system. There are many hypotheses on this topic, but it has been now and hand in hand with researchers at the University of Utah, where it has been able to confirm this relationship. his team had already proved that the disorder in mice similar to Trichotillomania in humans is caused by a mutated Hox gene resulting in defective microglial cells. These cells, some of which are produced in the brain and others migrate from blood to the brain, defend the brain and spinal cord of infectious agents.
In the experiment were transplanted bone marrow of normal mice to 10 mice with the mutation. A few months all transplanted animals showed normal behavior, four of them recovered completely, others improved much.
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