Microglia in the brain’s parenchyma arise from macrophage progenitors in the embryonic yolk sac (Ginhoux et al., 2010), and are thought to self-renew locally during a mammal’s lifespan, without ...
Anatomy explorers have charted a new path myeloid cells use to access the brain. On 3 June in Neuron, scientists led by Lindsay Hohsfield and Kim Green, both at the University of California, Irvine, ...