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Effects of the pig renal epithelial cell line LLC-PK1 and its conditioned medium on the phenotype of porcine microglia in vitro.
European journal of cell biology - 1 Apr 2007
Tambuyzer Bart R, Lambrichts Ivo, Lenjou Marc, Nouwen Etienne J
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Microglia are dispersed throughout the central nervous system. Under physiological circumstances they display a 'ramified' resting phenotype. In different neuropathologies microglia reversibly transform into the activated form, an amoeboid phagocyte with a broad spectrum of immune effector functi...
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