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Oct 2026
Microglial lipid metabolism in perioperative neurocognitive risk: aging-related priming, organelle crosstalk, and lipid-redox injury
Abstract Perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PND) are clinically important complications in older surgical patients, but broad neuroinflammatory models do not fully explain age-related susceptibility or failed recovery. Aging alters microglial surveillance, phagocytosis, mitochondrial function, lipid handling, and...
Ding-Liang Cai, Xin-Jie Ke, Fang Luo et al.
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