Silencing of TGFβ signalling in microglia results in impaired homeostasis

While previous studies had shown the requirement of TGFβ signalling in microglia gene expression, the specificity of the loss-of-function was unclear. Here, Zöller and colleagues generate microglia specific cKO of TGFβ receptor 2, and show dispensable function of Tgfbr2 in microglial survival and th...

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Main Authors: Tanja Zöller, Artur Schneider, Christian Kleimeyer, Takahiro Masuda, Phani Sankar Potru, Dietmar Pfeifer, Thomas Blank, Marco Prinz, Björn Spittau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06224-y