Cardiovascular Diseases
Recently microglial activation has been reported in rats with myocardial infarction (Rana et al.,2010). These activation was specific to brain nuclei involved in cardiovascular regulation suggesting possible role of microglial activation in pathogenesis of heart failure.
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