The brain's best friend: Microglial neurotoxicity revisited

One long standing aspect of microglia biology was never questioned; their involvement in brain disease. Based on morphological changes (retracted processes and amoeboid shape) that inevitably occur in these cells in case of damage in the CNS, microglia in the diseased brain were called activated. Be...

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Main Authors: Sabine eHellwig, Annette eHeinrich, Knut eBiber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2013.00071/full