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Skipping adolescence to become super-inflammatory monocytes

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Single-cell RNA-sequencing of myeloid cells during neuroinflammation identifies a new population of pathogenic Cxcl10-expressing phagocytes, which develop independently of Ly6Chi monocytes but derive from early myeloid precursors shaped by the inflamed tissue microenvironment.

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Fig. 1: Profiling the CNS-invading mononuclear phagocytes.

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    Burkhard Becher, Donatella De Feo, Ana Amorim & Melanie Greter

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Becher, B., De Feo, D., Amorim, A. et al. Skipping adolescence to become super-inflammatory monocytes. Nat Immunol 21, 491–492 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-020-0652-2

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