 Microglia
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The third type of glial cell, along with astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (which together form the macroglia). Microglia vary in appearance depending on developmental stage, functional state, and anatomical location; subtype terms include ramified, perivascular, ameboid, resting, and activated. Microglia clearly are capable of phagocytosis and play an important role in a wide spectrum of neuropathologies. They have also been suggested to act in several other roles including in secretion (e.g., of cytokines and neural growth factors), in immunological processing (e.g., antigen presentation), and in central nervous system development and remodeling.
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D017628
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.637.400 A11.650.400
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microglia" by people in Profiles.
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Megjhani M, Rey-Villamizar N, Merouane A, Lu Y, Mukherjee A, Trett K, Chong P, Harris C, Shain W, Roysam B. Population-scale three-dimensional reconstruction and quantitative profiling of microglia arbors. Bioinformatics. 2015 Jul 01; 31(13):2190-8.
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Ahn SM, Byun K, Cho K, Kim JY, Yoo JS, Kim D, Paek SH, Kim SU, Simpson RJ, Lee B. Human microglial cells synthesize albumin in brain. PLoS One. 2008 Jul 30; 3(7):e2829.
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Srinivasan B, Roque CH, Hempstead BL, Al-Ubaidi MR, Roque RS. Microglia-derived pronerve growth factor promotes photoreceptor cell death via p75 neurotrophin receptor. J Biol Chem. 2004 Oct 01; 279(40):41839-45.
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Roque RS, Rosales AA, Jingjing L, Agarwal N, Al-Ubaidi MR. Retina-derived microglial cells induce photoreceptor cell death in vitro. Brain Res. 1999 Jul 31; 836(1-2):110-9.
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