Hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases

DM Wilson, MR Cookson, L Van Den Bosch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Decades of research have identified genetic factors and biochemical pathways involved in
neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). We present evidence for the following eight hallmarks …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease

DK Wilton, K Mastro, MD Heller, FW Gergits… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

Microglia in neurodegeneration

S Hickman, S Izzy, P Sen, L Morsett, J El Khoury - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The neuroimmune system is involved in development, normal functioning, aging, and injury
of the central nervous system. Microglia, first described a century ago, are the main …

Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

CS Subhramanyam, C Wang, Q Hu… - Seminars in cell & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microglia, being the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, play an important
role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and contributes towards brain development under …

Fragmented mitochondria released from microglia trigger A1 astrocytic response and propagate inflammatory neurodegeneration

AU Joshi, PS Minhas, SA Liddelow… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In neurodegenerative diseases, debris of dead neurons are thought to trigger glia-mediated
neuroinflammation, thus increasing neuronal death. Here we show that the expression of …

Converging pathways in neurodegeneration, from genetics to mechanisms

L Gan, MR Cookson, L Petrucelli, AR La Spada - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases cause progressive loss of cognitive and/or motor function and
pose major challenges for societies with rapidly aging populations. Human genetics studies …

iPSC-derived human microglia-like cells to study neurological diseases

EM Abud, RN Ramirez, ES Martinez, LM Healy… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Microglia play critical roles in brain development, homeostasis, and neurological disorders.
Here, we report that human microglial-like cells (iMGLs) can be differentiated from iPSCs to …

Gamma frequency entrainment attenuates amyloid load and modifies microglia

HF Iaccarino, AC Singer, AJ Martorell, A Rudenko… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in gamma oscillations (20–50 Hz) have been observed in several
neurological disorders. However, the relationship between gamma oscillations and cellular …

An environment-dependent transcriptional network specifies human microglia identity

D Gosselin, D Skola, NG Coufal, IR Holtman… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Microglia play essential roles in central nervous system homeostasis and
influence diverse aspects of neuronal function, including refinement of synaptic networks …