IL1B and Alzheimer disease: Compared to microvessels from age-matched controls, AD brain microvessels release significantly higher levels of a number of inflammatory factors including nitric oxide (NO), thrombin, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), interleukin (IL) IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) [46,54,55,93].