La microglía receptiva al GABA esculpe selectivamente el desarrollo de circuitos inhibidores

Emilia Favuzzi1, Shuhan Huang1, Giuseppe A Saldi2

  • 1Department of Neurobiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

Cell
|July 7, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

La microglía especializada esculpe el cableado cerebral interactuando selectivamente con las sinapsis inhibidoras. Este proceso impulsado por GABA refina los circuitos neuronales y es esencial para el comportamiento normal.

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