## Abstract Microglia, one of three glial cell types in the central nervous system (CNS), play an important role as resident immunocompetent and phagocytic cells in the CNS in the event of injury and disease. It was del Rio Hortega in 1927 who determined that microglia belong a distinct glial cell
Microglia Biology in Health and Disease
✍ Scribed by Garden, Gwenn A.; Möller, Thomas
- Book ID
- 107380546
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 420 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1557-1890
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