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Glial Cell Differentiation

Glial Cell Differentiation is the process by which undifferentiated neural precursor or progenitor cells acquire the specialized morphological, molecular, and functional characteristics of specific glial cell types, such as astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, or microglia, through regulated genetic and epigenetic mechanisms.

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Fate Mapping Analysis Reveals That Adult Microglia Derive from Primitive Macrophages

Florent Ginhoux, Melanie Greter, Marylène Leboeuf et al. · Science · 2010 · 5.1K citations · Full text

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Purification and Characterization of Progenitor and Mature Human Astrocytes Reveals Transcriptional and Functional Differences with Mouse

Ye Zhang, Steven A. Sloan, Laura Clarke et al. · Neuron · 2015 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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A glial progenitor cell that develops in vitro into an astrocyte or an oligodendrocyte depending on culture medium

Martin Raff, Robert H. Miller, Mark Noble · Nature · 1983 · 2K citations

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M2 microglia and macrophages drive oligodendrocyte differentiation during CNS remyelination

Véronique E. Miron, Amanda Boyd, Jingwei Zhao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Marrow stromal cells migrate throughout forebrain and cerebellum, and they differentiate into astrocytes after injection into neonatal mouse brains

Gene Kopen, Darwin J. Prockop, Donald G. Phinney · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 1.6K citations

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    Michael Wegner

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    36 publications · 6.7K citations

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    Robin J.M. Franklin

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    32 publications · 7.3K citations

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    Robert H. Miller

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    34 publications · 5.5K citations

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    Martin Raff

    University College London, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 8.7K citations

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    William D. Richardson

    University College London, United Kingdom

    31 publications · 9.5K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    74 h-index

    410 publications

    92.7K citations

  2. Inserm

    Paris, France

    70 h-index

    893 publications

    69.2K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    64 h-index

    304 publications

    43.7K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    60 h-index

    342 publications

    62.2K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    56 h-index

    641 publications

    43.6K citations

  6. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    52 h-index

    252 publications

    47.5K citations

  7. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    49 h-index

    295 publications

    30K citations

  8. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    46 h-index

    337 publications

    42.4K citations

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  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    264 publications · 42.4K citations

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  2. Glia

    363 publications · 23K citations

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  3. Development

    124 publications · 19.6K citations

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  4. Journal of Neuroscience Research

    JNR · 246 publications · 14.6K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 93 publications · 19.4K citations

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