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 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 …

Modular, efficient and constant-memory single-cell RNA-seq preprocessing

P Melsted, AS Booeshaghi, L Liu, F Gao, L Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We describe a workflow for preprocessing of single-cell RNA-sequencing data that balances
efficiency and accuracy. Our workflow is based on the kallisto and bustools programs, and is …

Microglial regional heterogeneity and its role in the brain

YL Tan, Y Yuan, L Tian - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Microglia have been recently shown to manifest a very interesting phenotypical
heterogeneity across different regions in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) …

Microglia biology: one century of evolving concepts

M Prinz, S Jung, J Priller - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia were first recognized as a distinct cell population in the CNS one century ago. For
a long time, they were primarily considered to be phagocytes responsible for removing …

Immune cell regulation of glia during CNS injury and disease

AD Greenhalgh, S David, FC Bennett - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Glial cells are abundant in the CNS and are essential for brain development and
homeostasis. These cells also regulate tissue recovery after injury and their dysfunction is a …

Microglia and inflammatory responses in diabetic retinopathy

UM Kinuthia, A Wolf, T Langmann - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diabetic retinopathy is a vision-threatening disease affecting neurons and microvasculature
of the retina. The development of this disease is associated with the action of inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Apolipoprotein E4 impairs the response of neurodegenerative retinal microglia and prevents neuronal loss in glaucoma

MA Margeta, Z Yin, C Madore, KM Pitts, SM Letcher… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele is associated with an increased risk of
Alzheimer disease and a decreased risk of glaucoma, but the underlying mechanisms …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis

G Coulis, D Jaime, C Guerrero-Juarez… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Macrophages are essential for skeletal muscle homeostasis, but how their dysregulation
contributes to the development of fibrosis in muscle disease remains unclear. Here, we used …

Mechanisms of photoreceptor death in retinitis pigmentosa

F Newton, R Megaw - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common cause of inherited blindness and is
characterised by the progressive loss of retinal photoreceptors. However, RP is a highly …