Medicine and Health

In vivo imaging in mouse spinal cord reveals that microglia prevent degeneration of injured axons

W. Wu, Y. He, et al.

This groundbreaking research by Wanjie Wu, Yingzhu He, Yujun Chen, Yiming Fu, Sicong He, Kai Liu, and Jianan Y. Qu uses in vivo imaging to showcase how microglia, the central nervous system's immune soldiers, offer crucial protection to injured axons. Discover how these tiny warriors wrap around myelinated axons at Nodes of Ranvier to prevent degeneration following injury!

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