The THIK and Thin of Microglia Dynamics.

Neuron

Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2018

Madry et al. (2018) show that the two-pore potassium channel THIK-1 is tonically active in microglia and promotes microglial ramification and surveillance of the brain parenchyma. Interestingly, THIK-1 is not essential to damage-induced outgrowth of microglial processes but is critical to microglial IL-1β release.

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