Sex-Specific Features of Microglia from Adult Mice

Cell Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 3501-3511

  Villa, Alessandro ^a   Gelosa, Paolo ^b   Castiglioni, Laura ^a   Cimino, Mauro ^c   Rizzi, Nicoletta ^a   Pepe, Giovanna ^a   Lolli, Federica ^a   Marcello, Elena ^a   Sironi, Luigi ^a,b   Vegeto, Elisabetta ^a   Maggi, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

cell transfer; estrogens; ischemic stroke; microglia; neuroinflammation; sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROGLIAL CELL CULTURE; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STROKE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85048555873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.05.048     Document Type: Article

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