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Increased morphological diversity of microglia in the activated hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 27 Aug 2003
Ayoub Albert E, Salm A K
Abstract excerpt
Microglia are the immune cells of the CNS. In the normal adult mammalian brain, the majority of these cells is quiescent and exhibits a ramified morphology. Microglia are perhaps best known for their swift transformation to an activated ameboid morphology in response to pathological insults. Here...
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