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T-cell cycles

VICIOUS CYCLE  After a brain injury, the guts become temporarily paralyzed. That alters gut microbe populations, triggering the activity of pro-inflammatory T cells, which cause further damage in the brain, mouse studies show.  

E. Otwell

When mice have a stroke, their gut reaction can amp up brain damage.