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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Immunofluorescent staining of Npc1-deficient mouse cerebellum, with Purkinje neurons in red, activated microglia in green and nucleus in blue. Massive microglia infiltration and loss of Purkinje neurons cause severe neurological disease in Niemann-Pick disease type C.

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Ting-Ting Chu

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