Microglia in neurodegenerative diseases: mechanism and potential therapeutic targets

C Gao, J Jiang, Y Tan, S Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia activation is observed in various neurodegenerative diseases. Recent advances in
single-cell technologies have revealed that these reactive microglia were with high spatial …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies

F Akçimen, ER Lopez, JE Landers, A Nath… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing technologies and collaborative efforts have led to
substantial progress in identifying the genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Interleukin-18 cytokine in immunity, inflammation, and autoimmunity: Biological role in induction, regulation, and treatment

SA Ihim, SD Abubakar, Z Zian, T Sasaki… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine involved in host defense against
infections and regulates the innate and acquired immune response. IL-18 is produced by …

Genome-wide identification of the genetic basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

S Zhang, J Cooper-Knock, AK Weimer, M Shi, T Moll… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a complex disease that leads to motor neuron death.
Despite heritability estimates of 52%, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have …

Update on genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

D Brenner, A Freischmidt - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
The genetic and molecular basis of ALS is increasingly examined on single-cell resolution.
In the past 2 years, the understanding of the downstream mechanisms of several ALS genes …

Opinion: more mouse models and more translation needed for ALS

EMC Fisher, L Greensmith, A Malaspina… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a complex disorder most of which is 'sporadic'of unknown
origin but approximately 10% is familial, arising from single mutations in any of more than 30 …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their applications in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

H Du, Z Huo, Y Chen, Z Zhao, F Meng, X Wang, S Liu… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results
in the loss of motor function in the central nervous system (CNS) and ultimately death. The …

Emerging trends in the field of inflammation and proteinopathy in ALS/FTD spectrum disorder

F De Marchi, T Franjkic, P Schito, T Russo, J Nimac… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Proteinopathy and neuroinflammation are two main hallmarks of neurodegenerative
diseases. They also represent rare common events in an exceptionally broad landscape of …

[HTML][HTML] Tools for studying human microglia: In vitro and in vivo strategies

AS Warden, C Han, E Hansen, S Trescott… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microglia may only represent 10% of central nervous system (CNS) cells but they perform
critical roles in development, homeostasis and neurological disease. Microglia are also …

Unsupervised machine learning identifies distinct ALS molecular subtypes in post-mortem motor cortex and blood expression data

H Marriott, R Kabiljo, GP Hunt, AA Khleifat… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) displays considerable clinical and genetic
heterogeneity. Machine learning approaches have previously been utilised for patient …