Editorial Volume 16, Issue 9 pp 7508—7510
Stopping the aged brain from eating itself
Figure 1. Microglial phagocytosis of synapses induced by UDP. Aged and/or stressed synapses and neurons may release UDP that activates the microglial P2Y6 receptor, inducing microglial phagocytosis of the synapse or neuron. The image is created with BioRender.