Ultrastructure of microglia-synapse interactions in the HIV-1 Tat-injected murine central nervous system

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tremblay, Marie Ève ^a   Marker, Daniel F ^b   Puccini, Jenna M ^b   Muly, E Chris ^c   Lu, Shao Ming ^b   Gelbard, Harris A ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon terminal; Cerebral cortex; Dendrite; Dendritic spine; Filopodia; Microglia; Mouse; Tat; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894080148     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.27670     Document Type: Article

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