Innate immune cells play a well-documented role in the etiology and disease course of
many brain-based conditions, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic …

Cells can die as a consequence of being phagocytosed by other cells—a form of cell death
that has been called phagotrophy, cell cannibalism, programmed cell removal and primary …

Sex differences in brain structure and function are of substantial scientific interest because of
sex-related susceptibility to psychiatric and neurological disorders. Neuroinflammation is a …

Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system. They play key roles
in brain development, and physiology during life and aging. Equipped with a variety of …

There are inherent structural and functional differences in the central nervous systems
(CNS) of females and males. It has been gradually established that these sex-specific …

Environmental cues influence the highly dynamic morphology of microglia. Strategies to
characterize these changes usually involve user-selected morphometric features, which …

Microglial cells are the scions of foetal macrophages which invade the neural tube early
during embryogenesis. The nervous tissue environment instigates the phenotypic …

Originally hypothesized to function solely as immunologic responders within the central
nervous system (CNS), emerging evidence has revealed that microglia have more complex …

Elimination of dead or live cells take place in both a healthy and diseased central nervous
system (CNS). Dying or dead cells are quickly cleared by phagocytosis for the maintenance …

Microglia are tissue‐resident macrophages responsible for the surveillance, neuronal
support, and immune defense of the brain parenchyma. Recently, the role played by …