Microglia Reactivity: Heterogeneous Pathological Phenotypes.
Methods Mol Biol
; 2034: 41-55, 2019.
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ABSTRACT
A century ago, Pío del Río-Hortega discovered that microglial cells are endowed with remarkable dynamic and plastic capabilities. The real-time plasticity of microglia could be revealed, however, only during the last 15 years with the development of new transgenic animal models and new molecular and functional analysis methods. Phenotyping microglia in situ with these new tools sealed the fate of the classical two state model of "resting" microglia in physiological conditions and "activated" microglia in pathological conditions. Our current view on functional behavior of microglia takes into account the exquisite reactivity of these immune cells to changes occurring in the CNS in both physiological and pathological conditions. We briefly review here the results and methods that have uncovered the dynamics and versatility of microglial reactivity.
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Sistema Nervoso Central
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Microglia
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Doenças Neurodegenerativas
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Animals
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Humans
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2019
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