Heather Barber

Keywords glia astroglia radial glia microglia optic tectum programmed cell death neural development astrocyte phagocytosis zebrafish Research topic(s) CP: Neuroscience CP: Developmental biology Introduction During neural development, many cells undergo programmed cell death (PCD) and are efficiently cleared away by phagocytes.1,2 The process by which phagocytes recognize, engulf, and degrade dead or abnormal cells is called efferocytosis.2,3,4,5,6 Efferocytosis by professional phagocytes,...