Paula Dore-Duffy, Ph.D., WSU professor of neurology recently presented a study entitled "Central Nervous System Microvascular Pericyte Polarization to Alternatively Activated Phenotypes" at the seventh International Congress of Neuroimmunology, in Venice. Her co-authors were R. Balabanov and T. Williams. Pericytes are cells that are important in the controlling function of the blood vessels, including those of the central nervous system.