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SUBMITTER: Daria A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5331757 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daria Anna A Colombo Alessio A Llovera Gemma G Hampel Heike H Willem Michael M Liesz Arthur A Haass Christian C Tahirovic Sabina S
The EMBO journal 20161221 5
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by deposition of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuroinflammation. In order to study microglial contribution to amyloid plaque phagocytosis, we developed a novel <i>ex vivo</i> model by co-culturing organotypic brain slices from up to 20-month-old, amyloid-bearing AD mouse model (APPPS1) and young, neonatal wild-type (WT) mice. Surprisingly, co-culturing resulted in proliferation, recruitment, and clustering of old microglial cells around ...[more]