Abstract
Despite the fact that microglia cells were first described almost a century ago, microglia-derived immortalized cell lines have only been established in the last two decades. One should be aware of their limitations but also of their advantages. Cell lines offer a potentially powerful tool to investigate some functional aspects of microglia. Cell culturing of human and murine microglia cell lines will be described in this chapter. It includes a presentation of equipment needed, cell culture medium and supplements, cell culture monitoring, and a protocol describing the steps for subculturing of microglia cell lines.
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Rodhe, J. (2013). Cell Culturing of Human and Murine Microglia Cell Lines. In: Joseph, B., Venero, J. (eds) Microglia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1041. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-520-0_2
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