Extracellular membrane vesicles and immune regulation in the brain

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 MAY, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cossetti, Chiara ^a   Smith, Jayden A ^a   Iraci, Nunzio ^a   Leonardi, Tommaso ^a   Alfaro Cervello, Clara ^a   Pluchino, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Central nervous system; Endothelial cells; Exosomes; Extracellular membrane vesicles; Immune regulation; Microglia; Neural stem cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866399428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00117     Document Type: Article

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