LA JOLLA, California, Aug. 20 -- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies issued the following news release:

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Are predatory brain immune cells eating nerve cells in ALS?

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* Salk scientists discover that central nervous system-resident immune cells called microglia use TAM receptors (discovered by study senior author Greg Lemke in 1991) to eat specific nerve cells in mouse model of ALS

* The study . . .

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