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SUBMITTER: Takayama F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4956748 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Takayama Fumiko F Hayashi Yoshinori Y Wu Zhou Z Liu Yicong Y Nakanishi Hiroshi H
Scientific reports 20160721
It has long been believed that microglia morphologically transform into the activated state by retracting their long processes and consuming pathogens when bacteria infect into the brain parenchyma. In the present study, however, we showed for the first time that murine cortical microglia extend their processes towards focally injected Porphyromonas gingivalis. This P. gingivalis-induced microglial process extension was significantly increased during the light (sleeping) phase than the dark (wak ...[more]