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Selective ablation of proliferating microglial cells exacerbates ischemic injury in the brain.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 7 Mar 2007
Lalancette-Hébert Mélanie, Gowing Geneviève, Simard Alain, Weng Yuan Cheng, Kriz Jasna
Abstract excerpt
Here we report in vivo evidence of a neuroprotective role of proliferating microglial cells in cerebral ischemia. Using transgenic mice expressing a mutant thymidine kinase form of herpes simplex virus driven by myeloid-specific CD11b promoter and ganciclovir treatment as a tool, we selectively a...
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