Impairment of microglial responses to fa
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Hai Peng Hao; Katsumi Doh-ura; Hiroshi Nakanishi
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Cathepsin S (CS) is a lysosomal/endosomal cysteine protease especially expressed in cells of a mononuclear lineage including microglia. To better understand the role of CS in microglia, we investigated microglial responses after a facial nerve axotomy in CS‐deficient (CS−/−) and wild‐ty