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Motohiro Nonaka1, Minoru Fukuda
1Glycobiology Unit, Tumor Microenvironment Program, Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Immunity
|August 28, 2012
Abstract:
Classically activated microglia (M1) are believed to play a key role in neuronal degeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS). In this issue of Immunity, Starossom et al. (2012) show that Galectin-1 exerts a neuroprotective function through glycosylation-dependent inactivation with M1 cells.
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