Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

RC Paolicelli, A Sierra, B Stevens, ME Tremblay… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglial research has advanced considerably in recent decades yet has been constrained
by a rolling series of dichotomies such as" resting versus activated" and" M1 versus M2." …

Microglia in depression: an overview of microglia in the pathogenesis and treatment of depression

H Wang, Y He, Z Sun, S Ren, M Liu, G Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Major depressive disorder is a highly debilitating psychiatric disorder involving the
dysfunction of different cell types in the brain. Microglia are the predominant resident …

Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia

A Badimon, HJ Strasburger, P Ayata, X Chen, A Nair… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Microglia, the brain's resident macrophages, help to regulate brain function by removing
dying neurons, pruning non-functional synapses, and producing ligands that support …

Microglia heterogeneity in the single-cell era

T Masuda, R Sankowski, O Staszewski, M Prinz - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that are capable of
carrying out prominent and various functions during development and adulthood under both …

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 …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals the transcriptional landscape in ischemic stroke

K Zheng, L Lin, W Jiang, L Chen… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Ischemic stroke (IS) is a detrimental neurological disease with limited treatments options. It
has been challenging to define the roles of brain cell subsets in IS onset and progression …

Microglia drive transient insult-induced brain injury by chemotactic recruitment of CD8+ T lymphocytes

Z Shi, P Yu, WJ Lin, S Chen, X Hu, S Chen, J Cheng… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The crosstalk between the nervous and immune systems has gained increasing attention for
its emerging role in neurological diseases. Radiation-induced brain injury (RIBI) remains the …

Microglia and neuroinflammation: crucial pathological mechanisms in traumatic brain injury-induced neurodegeneration

F Shao, X Wang, H Wu, Q Wu, J Zhang - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common diseases in the central nervous
system (CNS) with high mortality and morbidity. Patients with TBI usually suffer many …

Citraconate inhibits ACOD1 (IRG1) catalysis, reduces interferon responses and oxidative stress, and modulates inflammation and cell metabolism

F Chen, WAM Elgaher, M Winterhoff, K Büssow… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the immunomodulatory and cytoprotective properties of itaconate have been
studied extensively, it is not known whether its naturally occurring isomers mesaconate and …