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Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter
The brain’s immune system includes a network of transport vessels (blue) and its own immune cells made in the bone marrow (green). Credit: Siling Du, Kipnis lab, Washington University in St. Louis
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Nature 606, 22-24 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01502-8
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