Microglia are a type of small macrophage-like glial cell in the central nervous system. Microglia can engage in phagocytosis, and are involved in immune responses within, as well as the ...

One of the biggest controversies in neuroscience dates back to 1906, when Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal argued their opposing views on brain structure. 1 Golgi hypothesized that brain ...

The microglia, a group of cells which are nicknamed ... which help to control microglial cell activity so that our neural ...

The first step towards studying myelin degradation in diseases was to understand how myelin maintains its structure and function in a healthy brain. For this investigation, researchers turned to an ...

Microglia modulate the immune response in the ... Further validation of the study findings would deepen our understanding of the structure and function of central nervous system interfaces ...

The study, published today in Cancer Cell, demonstrates that microglia, a type of resident immune cell in the brain, can be manipulated to reduce brain metastases growth and enhance immunotherapy ...