Progesterone Attenuates Microglial-Driven Retinal Degeneration and Stimulates Protective Fractalkine-CX3CR1 Signaling

• Sarah L. Roche ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Roche, Alice C. Wyse-Jackson

  Affiliation Cell Development and Disease Laboratory, Biochemistry Department, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Alice C. Wyse-Jackson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah L. Roche, Alice C. Wyse-Jackson

  Affiliation Cell Development and Disease Laboratory, Biochemistry Department, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Violeta Gómez-Vicente,

  Affiliation Departamento de Óptica, Farmacología y Anatomía, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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• Pedro Lax,

  Affiliation Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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• Ana M. Ruiz-Lopez,

  Affiliation Cell Development and Disease Laboratory, Biochemistry Department, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Ashleigh M. Byrne,

  Affiliation Cell Development and Disease Laboratory, Biochemistry Department, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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• Nicolás Cuenca,

  Affiliation Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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• Thomas G. Cotter

  * E-mail: t.cotter@ucc.ie

  Affiliation Cell Development and Disease Laboratory, Biochemistry Department, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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