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Microglial function interacts with the environment to affect sex-specific depression risk.
Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2024
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Microglial function interacts with the environment to affect sex-specific depression risk.
Fitzgerald E, Pokhvisneva I, Patel S, Yu Chan S, Peng Tan A, Chen H, Pelufo Silveira P, Meaney MJ
Brain, behavior, and immunity2024
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