Microglia and macrophages in brain homeostasis and disease

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 225-242

  Li, Qingyun ^a   Barres, Ben A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR 3; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2Y RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2Y RECEPTOR 12; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; BRAIN INJURY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 85043788619     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.125     Document Type: Review

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