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Mon Jun 15

• Ovid: In Vitro Modulation of Microglia Motility by Glioma Cells Is Mediated by Hepatocyte Growth Factor/Scatter Factor.: GL261 cells produce large amounts of HGF/SF and stimulate migration of BV2 microglial cells using this
• Microglia promote glioma migration: Use GL261 cells and isolate fresh microglia from (Balbc - not clear why not C57Bl/6) mice to look and migration

Sun May 31

• Trophic macrophages in development and disease : Article : Nature Reviews Immunology
• Losing your nerves? Maybe it's the antibodies : Article : Nature Reviews Immunology
• Maintaining the brain: insight into human neurodegenerat ion from : Drosophila melanogaster: mutants : Article : Nature Reviews Genetics

Fri Apr 10

• How Do Microglia Examine Damaged Synapses?

Sat Mar 14

• ScienceDirect - Journal of Neuroimmunolog y : Generation and characterizati on of mouse microglial cell lines: reports that some mouse microglial cell lines express EGF

Mon Mar 2

• Microglia: gatekeepers of central nervous system immunology -- Tambuyzer et al. 85 (3): 352 -- Journal of Leukocyte Biology: summary of microglia that the reviewer liked

Fri Feb 6

• Increased c-Jun-NH2-Kina se Signaling in Neurofibromato sis-1 Heterozygous Microglia Drives Microglia Activation and Promotes Optic Glioma Proliferation -- Daginakatte et al. 68 (24): 10358 -- Cancer Research: as the title says - mutation in microglia that stimulates ras can enhance glioblastoma growth

Mon Oct 13

• Possible involvement of the M2 anti-inflammat ory macrophage phenotype in growth of human gliomas: data indicating that CSF1 is more highly expressed in more malignant gliomas, driving microglia to an M2 type phenotype

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