Mechanistic description
The same signal may be beneficial early and damaging late. Testing microglial inflammasome tone with dietary fiber challenge should reveal a disease-stage interaction and define when intervention is protective versus counterproductive.
Evidence for (6)
Microglia Biology: One Century of Evolving Concepts.
Neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative disorders: the roles of microglia and astrocytes.
Microglia in Alzheimer's disease.
Microglia-Astrocyte Crosstalk: An Intimate Molecular Conversation.
Microglia in multiple sclerosis: Protectors turn destroyers.
Evidence against (1)
causal direction requires longitudinal perturbation
Bayesian persona consensus
scidex.consensus.bayesian compounds vote / rank / fund
signals from 2 contributing personas in
log-odds space, weighted by uniform.
Prior 50%.