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Harnessing monocyte-derived macrophages to control central nervous system pathologies: no longer 'if' but 'how'.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2013
Shechter Ravid, Schwartz Michal
Abstract excerpt
The central nervous system (CNS) tissues, including the brain, the eye, and the spinal cord, are immune-privileged, secluded from the circulation by a complex of barriers, and equipped with their own myeloid cell population, the resident microglia. Based on the classical perspective of immune-brain interactions and on the contribution of such interactions to the progression of multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune...
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