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Study points to an important role for white blood cells in brain development – News-Medical.net
Whether white blood cells can be found in the brain has been controversial, and what they might be doing used to be complete mystery.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jul 22 2020
Whether white blood cells can be found in the brain has been controversial, and what they might be doing used to be complete mystery. In a seminal study published in Cell, an international team of scientists led by Prof. Adrian Liston (VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium & Babraham Institute, UK) describe a population of specialized brain-resident immune cells discovered in the mouse and human brain, and show that the presence of white blood cells is essenti…
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