Immunolabeling for ApoE + RFP + microglia and DCX + neuroblasts revealed that SVZ ApoE + microglia was increased 7 days after PT and phagocytosed DCX + neuroblasts (Fig. 2i), suggesting that stroke-associated cluster 4 microglia with DAM-like characteristics phagocytose dying neuroblasts in the SVZ after distant cortical injury. Here, DCX is linked to Stroke.