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. 2016 Mar 22;113(12):3130-2.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601669113. Epub 2016 Mar 10.

Stable biomarker for plastic microglia

Benjamin M Segal  1 , Roman J Giger  2
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Stable biomarker for plastic microglia

Benjamin M Segal et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
High-magnification anti-Tmem119 immunofluorescence labeling of adult human neocortex depicting morphological features of an individual microglial cell, including many long and highly ramified processes. (Magnification: 3,000×.) Photomicrograph (maximum-intensity projection confocal image) adapted from ref. 11.
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  • New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS.
    Bennett ML, Bennett FC, Liddelow SA, Ajami B, Zamanian JL, Fernhoff NB, Mulinyawe SB, Bohlen CJ, Adil A, Tucker A, Weissman IL, Chang EF, Li G, Grant GA, Hayden Gephart MG, Barres BA. Bennett ML, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Mar 22;113(12):E1738-46. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525528113. Epub 2016 Feb 16. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 26884166 Free PMC article.

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