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 …

γδ T cells: origin and fate, subsets, diseases and immunotherapy

Y Hu, Q Hu, Y Li, L Lu, Z Xiang, Z Yin… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The intricacy of diseases, shaped by intrinsic processes like immune system exhaustion and
hyperactivation, highlights the potential of immune renormalization as a promising strategy …

SYK coordinates neuroprotective microglial responses in neurodegenerative disease

H Ennerfelt, EL Frost, DA Shapiro, C Holliday… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent studies have begun to reveal critical roles for the brain's professional phagocytes,
microglia, and their receptors in the control of neurotoxic amyloid beta (Aβ) and myelin …

A shared disease-associated oligodendrocyte signature among multiple CNS pathologies

M Kenigsbuch, P Bost, S Halevi, Y Chang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, perturbing neuronal and
non-neuronal cell populations. In this study, using single-cell transcriptomics, we mapped all …

Ferroptosis promotes T-cell activation-induced neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis

J Luoqian, W Yang, X Ding, Q Tuo, Z Xiang… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
While many drugs are effective at reducing the relapse frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS),
there is an unmet need for treatments that slow neurodegeneration resulting from secondary …

Microglia and monocytes in inflammatory CNS disease: integrating phenotype and function

AG Spiteri, CL Wishart, R Pamphlett, G Locatelli… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
In neurological diseases, the actions of microglia, the resident myeloid cells of the CNS
parenchyma, may diverge from, or intersect with, those of recruited monocytes to drive …

Viruses and autoimmunity: a review on the potential interaction and molecular mechanisms

MK Smatti, FS Cyprian, GK Nasrallah, AA Al Thani… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
For a long time, viruses have been shown to modify the clinical picture of several
autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes (T1D), systemic lupus erythematosus …

Mesenchymal stem cells: Cell therapy and regeneration potential

C Brown, C McKee, S Bakshi, K Walker… - Journal of tissue …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advances in the isolation of multipotent progenitor cells, routinely called
mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs), from various human tissues and organs have …

Single-cell analysis reveals T cell infiltration in old neurogenic niches

BW Dulken, MT Buckley, P Navarro Negredo… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The mammalian brain contains neurogenic niches that comprise neural stem cells and other
cell types. Neurogenic niches become less functional with age, but how they change during …

Inducing immune tolerance with dendritic cell-targeting nanomedicines

A Cifuentes-Rius, A Desai, D Yuen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Induced tolerogenic dendritic cells are a powerful immunotherapy for autoimmune disease
that have shown promise in laboratory models of disease and early clinical trials. In contrast …