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Immortalized human microglial cell line: phenotypic expression.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Aug 2005
Nagai Atsushi, Mishima Seiji, Ishida Yuri, Ishikura Hiroto, Harada Takayuki, Kobayashi Shotai, Kim Seung U
Abstract excerpt
Microglia are a major neuroglial component of the CNS, playing an important role as resident immunocompetent and phagocytic cells in the CNS in the event of injury and disease. To understand the role of microglia in the CNS in health and diseases, we have recently established an immortalized clonal cell line of human microglia, HMO6, from human embryonic telencephalon tissue by using a retroviral vector encoding...
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