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. 2025 Jun 16;25(4):296-298.
doi: 10.1177/15357597251348961. eCollection 2025 Jul-Aug.

Forged Without FIRE: Normal Brain Development in the Absence of Microglia

Nicholas H Varvel  1
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Forged Without FIRE: Normal Brain Development in the Absence of Microglia

Nicholas H Varvel. Epilepsy Curr. .
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The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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  • Typical development of synaptic and neuronal properties can proceed without microglia in the cortex and thalamus.
    O'Keeffe M, Booker SA, Walsh D, Li M, Henley C, Simões de Oliveira L, Liu M, Wang X, Banqueri M, Ridley K, Dissanayake KN, Martinez-Gonzalez C, Craigie KJ, Vasoya D, Leah T, He X, Hume DA, Duguid I, Nolan MF, Qiu J, Wyllie DJA, Dando OR, Gonzalez-Sulser A, Gan J, Pridans C, Kind PC, Hardingham GE. O'Keeffe M, et al. Nat Neurosci. 2025 Feb;28(2):268-279. doi: 10.1038/s41593-024-01833-x. Epub 2025 Jan 6. Nat Neurosci. 2025. PMID: 39762658 Free PMC article.

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