Microglia protect against brain injury and their selective elimination dysregulates neuronal network activity after stroke

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Szalay, Gergely ^a   Martinecz, Bernadett ^a   Lénárt, Nikolett ^a   Környei, Zsuzsanna ^a   Orsolits, Barbara ^a   Judák, Linda ^a,b   Császár, Eszter ^a   Fekete, Rebeka ^a   West, Brian L ^c   Katona, Gergely ^b   Rózsa, Balázs ^a,b   Dénes, Ádám ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c PLEXXIKON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BRAIN; CALCIUM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INJURY; STROKE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEUROPROTECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTION; STROKE; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84966283572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11499     Document Type: Article

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