Microglia in the Brain (Z4) 2016

In the past five years, understanding of the origins and functions of microglia, the unique myeloid cells of the central nervous system (CNS) parenchyma, has proceeded at such a remarkable pace that it's as if an entirely new CNS cell type had been discovered. Since their discovery 100 years ago, it has been suspected that microglia are implicated in virtually all disorders of the nervous system. Associations of polymorphic variants of microglial genes have now proven this hypothesis.