Microglial phagocytosis of live neurons

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 209-216

  Brown, Guy C ^a   Neher, Jonas J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; HUMANS; MICROGLIA; NEURONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 84897859634     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3710     Document Type: Article

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