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Rod microglia: elongation, alignment, and coupling to form trains across the somatosensory cortex after experimental diffuse brain injury

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Title
Rod microglia: elongation, alignment, and coupling to form trains across the somatosensory cortex after experimental diffuse brain injury
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Journal of Neuroinflammation, October 2012
DOI 10.1186/1742-2094-9-247
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Jenna M Ziebell, Samuel E Taylor, Tuoxin Cao, Jordan L Harrison, Jonathan Lifshitz

Abstract

Since their discovery, the morphology of microglia has been interpreted to mirror their function, with ramified microglia constantly surveying the micro-environment and rapidly activating when changes occur. In 1899, Franz Nissl discovered what we now recognize as a distinct microglial activation state, microglial rod cells (Stäbchenzellen), which he observed adjacent to neurons. These rod-shaped microglia are typically found in human autopsy cases of paralysis of the insane, a disease of the pre-penicillin era, and best known today from HIV-1-infected brains. Microglial rod cells have been implicated in cortical 'synaptic stripping' but their exact role has remained unclear. This is due at least in part to a scarcity of experimental models. Now we have noted these rod microglia after experimental diffuse brain injury in brain regions that have an associated sensory sensitivity. Here, we describe the time course, location, and surrounding architecture associated with rod microglia following experimental diffuse traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 133 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 26 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 13%
Student > Master 13 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 24 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 33 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 6%
Engineering 7 5%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 32 24%
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