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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2017 Oct 23;125(5):809–826. doi: 10.1007/s00702-017-1795-7

Table 1.

Microglia markers in health and disease

Microglia Markers References
Homeostatic Cd11b+ Hickman et al. (2013), Butovsky et al. (2014), Asai et al. (2015), Greenhalgh et al. (2016), Zrzavy et al. (2017)
Cd45low
Cx3cr1+
F4/80+
Fcrls+
Iba1+
Olfml3+
P2ry12+
Sall1+
Siglec-H+
Tmem119+
Tgfbr+
Csf1r+
Neurodegenerative diseases Arg1↑ Chiu et al. (2013), Holtman et al. (2015), Keren-Shaul (2017), Krasemann (2017), Zrzavy et al. (2017)
Apoe ↑
Axl ↑
Ccl2 ↑
Cd45 ↑
Clec7a ↑
Gpnmb ↑
Msr1↑
Spp1↑
Cd11b →
F4/80 →
Fcrls →
Iba1 →
Tmem119 →
Csf1r↓
P2ry12 ↓
Siglec-H ↓
Sall1 ↓
Tgfbr↓

Arrows indicate changes in expression: ↑ increased, ↓ decreased, → unchanged