Maternal immune activation evoked by polyinosinic: Polycytidylic acid does not evoke microglial cell activation in the embryo

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue AUGUST, 2015, Pages

  Smolders, Silke ^a,b   Smolders, Sophie M T ^a,c,d,e   Swinnen, Nina ^a   Gärtner, Annette ^b   Rigo, Jean Michel ^a   Legendre, Pascal ^c,d,e   Brône, Bert ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cortex; Embryo; Maternal immune activation; Microglia; Neuropsychiatric disorders

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 84940182373     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00301     Document Type: Article

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