A Good Brain Needs a Good Vacuum Cleaner (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A Good Brain Needs a Good Vacuum Cleaner (1 of 2)

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Three-dimensional reconstruction of a single microglia cell from hippocampal CA1 stratum Radiatum of a Cx3cr1GFP/+mouse. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 21, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Rosa Paolicelli of European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "Synaptic Pruning by Microglia Is Necessary for Normal Brain Development."

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