On place and time: microglia in embryonic and perinatal brain development

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2017, Pages 121-130

  Thion, Morgane Sonia ^a   Garel, Sonia ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRINSIC FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MICROBIOME; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 85032230436     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.10.004     Document Type: Review

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