Glial cells and their function in the adult brain: A journey through the history of their ablation

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Jäkel, Sarah ^a,b   Dimou, Leda ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Brain function; Cell ablation; Microglia; NG2 glia; Oligodendrocytes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DEATH; CELL POPULATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROCYTE PROGENITOR;

EID: 85013980145     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00024     Document Type: Review

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