ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2014
Microglial phagocytosis of live neurons.
Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 522 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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522 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 853 citations in OpenAlex.
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Microglia, the brain's professional phagocytes, can remove dead and dying neurons as well as synapses and the processes of live neurons. However, we and others have recently shown that microglia can also execute neuronal death by phagocytosing stressed-but-viable neurons - a process that we have termed phagoptosis. In this Progress article, we discuss evidence suggesting that phagoptosis may contribute to neuronal loss during brain development, inflammation, ischaemia and neurodegeneration.
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