Article
Unaltered prion disease in mice lacking developmental endothelial locus-1 (Del-1)
2018-06-15
Abstract excerpt
Progression of prion diseases is driven by the accumulation of prions in the brain. Ablation of microglia or deletion of the eat-me-signal milk-fat globule EGF factor VIII (Mfge8) accelerate prion pathogenesis, suggesting that microglia defends the brain by phagocytosing prions. Like Mfge8, Developmental endothelial locus-1 (Del-1) is a secreted protein that acts as an opsonin bridging phagocytes and apoptotic cel...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9c8affee-109a-536e-a242-213193b8864e
- DOI
- 10.1101/348177
