Recovery of Focal Brain Ischemia-Induced Behavioral Dysfunction by Intracerebroventricular Injection of Microglia

• Main Authors: Yoshihisa Kitamura (Author), Daijiro Yanagisawa (Author), Masatoshi Inden (Author), Kazuyuki Takata (Author), Daiju Tsuchiya (Author), Toshiyuki Kawasaki (Author), Takashi Taniguchi (Author), Shun Shimohama (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The function of microglia in the brain parenchyma is not fully understood. Occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and reperfusion caused behavioral dysfunction with massive neuronal loss in the rat cerebral cortex and striatum. When exogenous microglia were microinjected into the intracerebro...