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With Inflammation, It's Better to Have a Cool HeadAn abnormal immune system can mistake body tissue for a foreign invader and attack it, causing inflammation. Researchers are learning how similar dynamics occur in the brain. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that blueberry extracts helped quell the inflammation that was produced when the brain's immune cells responded to oxidative stress, based on a cell-culture study.Lead author, molecular biologist Francis Lau, and neuroscientist James Joseph conducted the study at the USDA's Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Mass. Joseph leads the HNRCA's Neuroscience Laboratory. ARS is USDA's chief scientific research agency. The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research.