Contact: Karen Kreeger
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Caption: Progressive microglial activation in the central nervous system of transgenic tau mice. Microglia are progressively activated with age in the brains of transgenic mice (PS19, three to nine months) compared to normal mice (nTg).
Credit: Virginia Lee, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Neuron
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