Increasing CD11c+ microglial subsets in the spinal dorsal horn by intrathecal treatment of interleukin-4 alleviate pain hypersensitivity caused by nerve injury.

Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates ...

Without the receptor, ADGRG1, the microglia barely nibbled on the toxic protein. Using a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, ...

UCSF scientists have discovered how microglia engulf and break down amyloid beta, a protein that builds up in Alzheimer's, ...

Scientists at UCSF have uncovered how certain immune cells in the brain, called microglia, can effectively digest toxic ...