Mapping tool reveals microglia's shape-shifting secrets | Spectrum
The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.
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The approach could help test hypotheses about how atypical function of the brain’s immune cells contributes to autism.
How do signals from outside the cell cause a response inside it? Such outside signals could be hormones or neurotransmitters. To notice them, the cell's surface possesses receptors. One of the key classes of such receptors are so-called G protein-coupled receptors, or in short GPCRs.