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Microglia

Known as: perivascular glial cell, Set of microglial cells, Small glial cell 
The third type of glial cell, along with astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (which together form the macroglia). Microglia vary in appearance depending… 
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Brazilein protects the brain against focal cerebral ischemia reperfusion injury correlating to inflammatory response suppression.
Review
2004
Review
2004
Effects of neuroinflammation on glia–glia gap junctional intercellular communication: a perspective
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Treatment of the mouse model of mucopolysaccharidosis I with retrovirally transduced bone marrow.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Elevated glial brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Parkinson's diseased nigra.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Distinct patterns of stimulus‐inducible chemokine mRNA accumulation in human fetal astrocytes and microglia
Interferon‐γ‐inducible 10 kd protein (IP‐10) is an ELR (Glu‐Leu‐Arg)− α chemokine with known chemotactic effects on T cells and… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
AIDS and the brain: is there a chemokine connection?
Review
1994
Review
1994
Modulation of nerve and glial function by adenosine--role in the development of ischemic damage.
Review
1994
Review
1994
Propentofylline: a nucleoside transport inhibitor with neuroprotective effects in cerebral ischemia.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Natural and induced cytotoxicity of oligodendrocytes by microglia is inhibitable by TGFβ
Blood macrophages and brain macrophages (microglia) have been implicated in demyelination and destruction of the oligodendrocyte… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Hippocampal aging in rats: A morphometric study of multiple variables in semithin sections
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