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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2019 Jan 12;78:9–20. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2019.01.004

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Hypothesis detailing possible mechanisms by which CREB signaling in PBMC affect CREB signaling in neurons. Deficits in CREB may cause dysfunction in the production of and response to interleukins, neurotrophic factors, catecholamines, or microRNAs. These factors may traffic across the compromised blood brain barrier and signal through neuronal receptors on vulnerable neurons, thus negatively affecting CREB activation and CRE-based transcription, important for learning and memory.