The immunology of multiple sclerosis

KE Attfield, LT Jensen, M Kaufmann… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Our incomplete understanding of the causes and pathways involved in the onset and
progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) limits our ability to effectively treat this complex …

Multiple sclerosis: Neuroimmune crosstalk and therapeutic targeting

M Charabati, MA Wheeler, HL Weiner, FJ Quintana - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central
nervous system afflicting nearly three million individuals worldwide. Neuroimmune …

Perivascular cells induce microglial phagocytic states and synaptic engulfment via SPP1 in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease

S De Schepper, JZ Ge, G Crowley, LSS Ferreira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by synaptic loss, which can result from
dysfunctional microglial phagocytosis and complement activation. However, what signals …

[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: Immune and non-immune functions

K Borst, AA Dumas, M Prinz - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
As resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are associated
with diverse functions essential to the develo** and adult brain during homeostasis and …

A lymphocyte–microglia–astrocyte axis in chronic active multiple sclerosis

M Absinta, D Maric, M Gharagozloo, T Garton… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions that do not resolve in the months after they form harbour
ongoing demyelination and axon degeneration, and are identifiable in vivo by their …

Cytokines as emerging regulators of central nervous system synapses

F Zipp, S Bittner, DP Schafer - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Cytokines are key messengers by which immune cells communicate, and they drive many
physiological processes, including immune and inflammatory responses. Early discoveries …

Complement C1q-dependent excitatory and inhibitory synapse elimination by astrocytes and microglia in Alzheimer's disease mouse models

B Dejanovic, T Wu, MC Tsai, D Graykowski… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia and complement can mediate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). By
integrative multi-omics analysis, here we show that astrocytic and microglial proteins are …

The neuropathobiology of multiple sclerosis

MS Woo, JB Engler, MA Friese - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic low-grade inflammation and neuronal deregulation are two components of a
smoldering disease activity that drives the progression of disability in people with multiple …

Early-life inflammation promotes depressive symptoms in adolescence via microglial engulfment of dendritic spines

P Cao, C Chen, A Liu, Q Shan, X Zhu, C Jia, X Peng… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Early-life inflammation increases the risk for depression in later life. Here, we demonstrate
how early-life inflammation causes adolescent depressive-like symptoms: by altering the …