Macrophages in health and disease

MD Park, A Silvin, F Ginhoux, M Merad - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The heterogeneity of tissue macrophages, in health and in disease, has become
increasingly transparent over the last decade. But with the plethora of data comes a natural …

The neuroimmune axis of Alzheimer's disease

M Jorfi, A Maaser-Hecker, RE Tanzi - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a genetically complex and heterogeneous disorder with
multifaceted neuropathological features, including β-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary …

APOE4 impairs the microglial response in Alzheimer's disease by inducing TGFβ-mediated checkpoints

Z Yin, N Rosenzweig, KL Kleemann, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The APOE4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).
The contribution of microglial APOE4 to AD pathogenesis is unknown, although APOE has …

Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

T Guo, D Zhang, Y Zeng, TY Huang, H Xu… - Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder seen in age-
dependent dementia. There is currently no effective treatment for AD, which may be …

Meningeal lymphatics affect microglia responses and anti-Aβ immunotherapy

S Da Mesquita, Z Papadopoulos, T Dykstra, L Brase… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia. Although there is no
effective treatment for AD, passive immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies against …

A single-cell atlas of entorhinal cortex from individuals with Alzheimer's disease reveals cell-type-specific gene expression regulation

A Grubman, G Chew, JF Ouyang, G Sun, XY Choo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
There is currently little information available about how individual cell types contribute to
Alzheimer's disease. Here we applied single-nucleus RNA sequencing to entorhinal cortex …

Brain cell type–specific enhancer–promoter interactome maps and disease-risk association

A Nott, IR Holtman, NG Coufal, JCM Schlachetzki, M Yu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Noncoding genetic variation is a major driver of phenotypic diversity, but functional
interpretation is challenging. To better understand common genetic variation associated with …

Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders

C Yang, FHG Farias, L Ibanez, A Suhy, B Sadler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the tissue-specific genetic controls of protein levels is essential to uncover
mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation. In this study, we generated a genomic …

Blood-brain barrier: from physiology to disease and back

MD Sweeney, Z Zhao, A Montagne… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents neurotoxic plasma components, blood cells, and
pathogens from entering the brain. At the same time, the BBB regulates transport of …