Unaltered Aβ Pathology in the Presence of Peripherally Derived Myeloid Cells (IMAGE)

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Unaltered Aβ Pathology in the Presence of Peripherally Derived Myeloid Cells

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Left: Aβ plaques (green) surrounded by resident microglia (blue) in AD mouse brains. Right: "new" peripheral macrophages (blue) that migrated into the brain of AD mice upon ablation of resident microglia, but ignore Aβ plaques.

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