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Generation and characterization of immortalized rat retinal microglial cell lines.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Apr 2014
Jiang Xiao-shuang, Ni Ying-qin, Liu Tian-jin, Zhang Meng, Jiang Rui, Xu Ge-zhi
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Retinal microglia play an important role as resident immunocompetent and phagocytic cells in the event of injury and disease. Retinal microglia and microglia precursor transplantation show a rescue effect in ischemic retina and retinal degeneration. However, studies of retinal microglia have been hampered by the difficulty of obtaining sufficient numbers of microglia. One way to circumvent this difficulty is to...
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