Microglia regulate hippocampal neurogenesis during chronic neurodegeneration

•Microglia are proneurogenic in a model of prion disease.•Blocking the expansion of microglia prevents the aberrant differentiation of newborn neurons.•TGFβ dominates the proneurogenic actions of microglia during chronic neurodegeneration.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: De Lucia, Chiara, Rinchon, Adeline, Olmos-Alonso, Adrian, Riecken, Kristoffer, Fehse, Boris, Boche, Delphine, Perry, V. Hugh, Gomez-Nicola, Diego
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907582/