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Astragaloside IV inhibits experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by modulating the polarization of both microglia/macrophages and astrocytes

Jingwen Yu
1
,
Bingtao Mu
1
,
Minfang Guo
1
,
Chunyun Liu
1
,
Tao Meng
1
,
Yuqing Yan
1
,
Lijuan Song
2
,
Jiezhong Yu
2
,
Gajendra Kumar
3
,
Cungen Ma
2

  1. Institute of Brain Science, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Inflammatory Neurodegenerative Diseases, Shanxi Datong University, China
  2. The Key Research Laboratory of Benefiting Qi for Acting Blood Circulation Method to Treat Multiple Sclerosis of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Research Center of Neurobiology, Shanxi University of Chinese Medicine, China
  3. Department of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Folia Neuropathol 2023; 61 (3): 273-290
Online publish date: 2023/07/04
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