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Brain perivascular macrophages: characterization and functional roles in health and disease.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Nov 2017
Faraco Giuseppe, Park Laibaik, Anrather Josef, Iadecola Costantino
Abstract excerpt
Perivascular macrophages (PVM) are a distinct population of resident brain macrophages characterized by a close association with the cerebral vasculature. PVM migrate from the yolk sac into the brain early in development and, like microglia, are likely to be a self-renewing cell population that, in the normal state, is not replenished by circulating monocytes. Increasing evidence implicates PVM in several disease...
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