"Microglia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The third type of glial cell, along with astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (which together form the macroglia). Microglia vary in appearance depending on developmental stage, functional state, and anatomical location; subtype terms include ramified, perivascular, ameboid, resting, and activated. Microglia clearly are capable of phagocytosis and play an important role in a wide spectrum of neuropathologies. They have also been suggested to act in several other roles including in secretion (e.g., of cytokines and neural growth factors), in immunological processing (e.g., antigen presentation), and in central nervous system development and remodeling.
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D017628
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.637.400 A11.650.400
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microglia" by people in Profiles.
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Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2017 09; 49(9):1373-1384.
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Activated microglia do not mediate the early deposition of Abeta in carriers of the apolipoprotein Eepsilon4 allele. Clin Neuropathol. 2002 May-Jun; 21(3):99-106.