Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Microglia and macrophages in brain homeostasis and disease

Q Li, BA Barres - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Microglia and non-parenchymal macrophages in the brain are mononuclear phagocytes that
are increasingly recognized to be essential players in the development, homeostasis and …

Microglia-mediated T cell infiltration drives neurodegeneration in tauopathy

X Chen, M Firulyova, M Manis, J Herz, I Smirnov… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Extracellular deposition of amyloid-β as neuritic plaques and intracellular accumulation of
hyperphosphorylated, aggregated tau as neurofibrillary tangles are two of the characteristic …

Spatially informed cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics

Y Ma, X Zhou - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Many spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies do not have single-cell resolution but
measure the average gene expression for each spot from a mixture of cells of potentially …

Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease

D Erny, N Dokalis, C Mezö, A Castoldi, O Mossad… - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
As tissue macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia constitute the pivotal
immune cells of this organ. Microglial features are strongly dependent on environmental …

Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

Immune attack: the role of inflammation in Alzheimer disease

FL Heppner, RM Ransohoff, B Becher - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
The past two decades of research into the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) have
been driven largely by the amyloid hypothesis; the neuroinflammation that is associated with …

Developmental heterogeneity of microglia and brain myeloid cells revealed by deep single-cell RNA sequencing

Q Li, Z Cheng, L Zhou, S Darmanis, NF Neff, J Okamoto… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia are increasingly recognized for their major contributions during brain development
and neurodegenerative disease. It is currently unknown whether these functions are carried …

Neuronal cell death

M Fricker, AM Tolkovsky, V Borutaite… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Neuronal cell death occurs extensively during development and pathology, where it is
especially important because of the limited capacity of adult neurons to proliferate or be …

Identification of a unique TGF-β–dependent molecular and functional signature in microglia

O Butovsky, MP Jedrychowski, CS Moore, R Cialic… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Microglia are myeloid cells of the CNS that participate both in normal CNS function and in
disease. We investigated the molecular signature of microglia and identified 239 genes and …