From the Cajal alumni Achúcarro and Río-Hortega to the rediscovery of never-resting microglia

• Main Authors: Marie-Eve eTremblay (Author), Cynthia eLecours (Author), Louis eSamson (Author), Víctor eSánchez-Zafra (Author), Amanda eSierra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Under the guidance of Ramón y Cajal, a plethora of students flourished and began to apply his silver impregnation methods to study brain cells other than neurons: the neuroglia. In the first decades of the XXth century, Nicolás Achúcarro was one of the first researchers to visualize the brain cel...