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  1. Microglia Sculpt Postnatal Neural Circuits in an Activity and Complement-Dependent Manner (2012)
    Dorothy P. Schafer, Emily K. Lehrman et al. Neuron
  2. The Classical Complement Cascade Mediates CNS Synapse Elimination (2007)
    Beth Stevens, Nicola J. Allen et al. Cell
  3. Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models (2016)
    Soyon Hong, Arnaud Frouin et al. Science
  4. Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of complement component 4 (2016)
    Aswin Sekar, Hon‐Cheong So et al. Nature

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