Disease-associated microglia: a universal immune sensor of neurodegeneration

A Deczkowska, H Keren-Shaul, A Weiner, M Colonna… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
A major challenge in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and brain aging is to identify
the body's intrinsic mechanism that could sense the central nervous system (CNS) damage …

[HTML][HTML] Dual ontogeny of disease-associated microglia and disease inflammatory macrophages in aging and neurodegeneration

A Silvin, S Uderhardt, C Piot, S Da Mesquita, K Yang… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Brain macrophage populations include parenchymal microglia, border-associated
macrophages, and recruited monocyte-derived cells; together, they control brain …

Comparative Insight into Microglia/Macrophages-Associated Pathways in Glioblastoma and Alzheimer's Disease

J Shi, S Huang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microglia and macrophages are pivotal to the brain's innate immune response and have
garnered considerable attention in the context of glioblastoma (GBM) and Alzheimer's …

Reformulating pro-oxidant microglia in neurodegeneration

J García-Revilla, IM Alonso-Bellido… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
In neurodegenerative diseases, microglia-mediated neuroinflammation and oxidative stress
are central events. Recent genome-wide transcriptomic analyses of microglial cells under …

Functional and phenotypic diversity of microglia: implication for microglia-based therapies for Alzheimer's disease

YJ Xu, NPB Au, CHE Ma - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and is closely
associated with the accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs). Apart …

[HTML][HTML] A unique microglia type associated with restricting development of Alzheimer's disease

H Keren-Shaul, A Spinrad, A Weiner… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a detrimental neurodegenerative disease with no effective
treatments. Due to cellular heterogeneity, defining the roles of immune cell subsets in AD …

Targeting innate immunity for neurodegenerative disorders of the central nervous system

KI Andreasson, AD Bachstetter… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroinflammation is critically involved in numerous neurodegenerative diseases, and key
signaling steps of innate immune activation hence represent promising therapeutic targets …

Microglia in neurodegeneration

S Hickman, S Izzy, P Sen, L Morsett, J El Khoury - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The neuroimmune system is involved in development, normal functioning, aging, and injury
of the central nervous system. Microglia, first described a century ago, are the main …

TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

J Hou, Y Chen, G Grajales-Reyes… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Microglia are central players in brain innate immunity and have been the subject of
extensive research in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this review, we aim to summarize the …

TREM2 sustains microglial expansion during aging and response to demyelination

PL Poliani, Y Wang, E Fontana… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Microglia contribute to development, homeostasis, and immunity of the CNS. Like other
tissue-resident macrophage populations, microglia express the surface receptor triggering …