Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals glial cell type-specific responses to ischemic stroke in male rodents

D Bormann, M Knoflach, E Poreba, CJ Riedl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuroglia critically shape the brain´ s response to ischemic stroke. However, their
phenotypic heterogeneity impedes a holistic understanding of the cellular composition of the …

Neuronal replenishment via hydrogel-rationed delivery of reprogramming factors

N Mahmoudi, Y Wang, N Moriarty, NY Ahmed… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The central nervous system's limited capacity for regeneration often leads to permanent
neuronal loss following injury. Reprogramming resident reactive astrocytes into induced …

Blocking of microglia-astrocyte proinflammatory signaling is beneficial following stroke

K Prescott, AE Münch, E Brahms, MK Weigel… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Microglia and astrocytes play an important role in the neuroinflammatory response and
contribute to both the destruction of neighboring tissue as well as the resolution of …

Integrating large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing in central nervous system disease using self-supervised contrastive learning

Y Fang, J Chen, H Wang, S Wang, M Chang… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The central nervous system (CNS) comprises a diverse range of brain cell types with distinct
functions and gene expression profiles. Although single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) …

Systemic inflammation attenuates the repair of damaged brains through reduced phagocytic activity of monocytes infiltrating the brain

S Gaire, J An, H Yang, KA Lee, M Dumre, EJ Lee… - Molecular Brain, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we examined how systemic inflammation affects repair of brain injury. To this
end, we created a brain-injury model by stereotaxic injection of ATP, a damage-associated …

[HTML][HTML] Blocking formation of neurotoxic reactive astrocytes is beneficial following stroke

K Prescott, AE Münch, E Brahms, MM Weigel, K Inoue… - biorxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microglia and astrocytes play an important role in the neuroinflammatory response and
contribute to both the destruction of neighboring tissue as well as the resolution of …

Nogo-A regulates the fate of human dental pulp stem cells toward osteogenic, adipogenic, and neurogenic differentiation

CF Lai, J Shen, A Balic, P Pagella, ME Schwab… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human teeth are highly innervated organs that contain a variety of mesenchymal stem cell
populations that could be used for cell-based regenerative therapies. Specific molecules are …

Modulation of Abundance and Location of High-Mobility Group Box 1 in Human Microglia and Macrophages under Oxygen–Glucose Deprivation

PB Bielawski, I Zhang, C Correa-Paz… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
While stroke represents one of the main causes of death worldwide, available effective drug
treatment options remain limited to classic thrombolysis with recombinant tissue …

Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve the Status of Hypoxic/Ischemic Cerebral Palsy Rats by Downregulating NogoA/NgR/Rho Pathway

Y Luo, J Qu, Z He, M Zhang, Z Zou, L Li… - Cell …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSC) have shown promising potential
in ameliorating brain injury, but the mechanism is unclear. We explore the role of …