Functional diversity of microglia – How heterogeneous are they to begin with?
Microglia serve in the surveillance and maintenance, protection and restoration of the CNS homeostasis. By their parenchymal location they differ from other CNS-associated myeloid cells, and by origin as well as functional characteristics they are also‒at least in part‒distinct from extraneural tiss...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2013.00065/full |