Ultrasound attacks Alzheimer’s plaques
With aid from microglia, treatment in mice helps improve memory
SWALLOWED WHOLE In the brains of mice treated with ultrasound (right), the nervous system’s immune cells (green and blue), take in more bits of plaque (red) related to Alzheimer’s disease than they do in the brains of untreated mice (left).
Leinenga and Götz/STM 2015