Single-cell multiregion dissection of Alzheimer's disease

H Mathys, CA Boix, LA Akay, Z Xia, J Davila-Velderrain… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia worldwide, but the cellular pathways
that underlie its pathological progression across brain regions remain poorly understood …

Cellular communities reveal trajectories of brain ageing and Alzheimer's disease

GS Green, M Fujita, HS Yang, M Taga, A Cain… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) has recently been associated with diverse cell states,,,,,,,,,–, yet
when and how these states affect the onset of AD remains unclear. Here we used a data …

Genetic insights into immune mechanisms of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

A Nott, IR Holtman - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microglia, the macrophages of the brain, are vital for brain homeostasis and have been
implicated in a broad range of brain disorders. Neuroinflammation has gained traction as a …

Benchmarking single-cell hashtag oligo demultiplexing methods

G Howitt, Y Feng, L Tobar, D Vassiliadis… - NAR Genomics and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sample multiplexing is often used to reduce cost and limit batch effects in single-cell RNA
sequencing (scRNA-seq) experiments. A commonly used multiplexing technique involves …

Elevated expression of the retrotransposon LINE-1 drives Alzheimer's disease-associated microglial dysfunction

N Roy, I Haq, JC Ngo, DA Bennett, AF Teich… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Aberrant activity of the retrotransposable element long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-
1) has been hypothesized to contribute to cellular dysfunction in age-related disorders …

Microglia contribute to the production of the amyloidogenic ABri peptide in familial British dementia

C Arber, JM Casey, S Crawford, N Rambarack… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Mutations in ITM2B cause familial British, Danish, Chinese, and Korean dementias. In
familial British dementia (FBD), a mutation in the stop codon of the ITM2B gene (also known …

Human-specific paralogs of SRGAP2 induce neotenic features of microglia structural and functional maturation

C Diaz-Salazar, M Krzisch, J Yoo, PR Nano… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microglia play key roles in shaping synaptic connectivity during neural circuits development.
Whether microglia display human-specific features of structural and functional maturation is …

[HTML][HTML] A pharmacological toolkit for human microglia identifies Topoisomerase I inhibitors as immunomodulators for Alzheimer's disease

V Haage, JF Tuddenham, N Comandante-Lou… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While efforts to identify microglial subtypes have recently accelerated, the relation of
transcriptomically defined states to function has been largely limited to in silico annotations …

RNA- and ATAC-sequencing Reveals a Unique CD83+ Microglial Population Focally Depleted in Parkinson's Disease

ZK Chatila, A Yadav, J Mares, X Flowers, TD Yun… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
All brain areas affected in Parkinson's disease (PD) show an abundance of microglia with an
activated morphology together with increased expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines …

Role of Microglia in Parkinson's Disease Pathology

D Ciolac, G Gonzalez-Escamilla - Translational Methods for Parkinson's …, 2024 - Springer
Microglia are a heterogeneous population of tissue macrophages in the central nervous
system (CNS), orchestrating a variety of functions ranging from neurogenesis …