Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology

E Mass, F Nimmerjahn, K Kierdorf… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages are innate immune cells that form a 3D network in all our tissues, where they
phagocytose dying cells and cell debris, immune complexes, bacteria and other waste …

Microglia: Immune and non-immune functions

K Borst, AA Dumas, M Prinz - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
As resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are associated
with diverse functions essential to the developing and adult brain during homeostasis and …

Microglia in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration: from understanding to therapy

L Muzio, A Viotti, G Martino - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS) acting as the
first line of defense in the brain by phagocytosing harmful pathogens and cellular debris …

Microglia and central nervous system–associated macrophages—from origin to disease modulation

M Prinz, T Masuda, MA Wheeler… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The immune system of the central nervous system (CNS) consists primarily of innate
immune cells. These are highly specialized macrophages found either in the parenchyma …

[HTML][HTML] White matter aging drives microglial diversity

S Safaiyan, S Besson-Girard, T Kaya… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Aging results in gray and white matter degeneration, but the specific microglial responses
are unknown. Using single-cell RNA sequencing from white and gray matter separately, we …

A single-cell atlas of entorhinal cortex from individuals with Alzheimer's disease reveals cell-type-specific gene expression regulation

A Grubman, G Chew, JF Ouyang, G Sun, XY Choo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
There is currently little information available about how individual cell types contribute to
Alzheimer's disease. Here we applied single-nucleus RNA sequencing to entorhinal cortex …

Amino acid metabolism in immune cells: essential regulators of the effector functions, and promising opportunities to enhance cancer immunotherapy

L Yang, Z Chu, M Liu, Q Zou, J Li, Q Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Amino acids are basic nutrients for immune cells during organ development, tissue
homeostasis, and the immune response. Regarding metabolic reprogramming in the tumor …

Cellular senescence at the crossroads of inflammation and Alzheimer's disease

A Guerrero, B De Strooper… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Aging is a key risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the reasons for this association
are not well understood. Senescent cells accumulate in aged tissues and have been shown …

Microglia morphophysiological diversity and its implications for the CNS

A Vidal-Itriago, RAW Radford, JA Aramideh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are mononuclear phagocytes of mesodermal origin that migrate to the central
nervous system (CNS) during the early stages of embryonic development. After colonizing …

Single-cell RNA sequencing of microglia throughout the mouse lifespan and in the injured brain reveals complex cell-state changes

TR Hammond, C Dufort, L Dissing-Olesen, S Giera… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, rapidly change states in response to their
environment, but we lack molecular and functional signatures of different microglial …