Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

RC Paolicelli, A Sierra, B Stevens, ME Tremblay… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglial research has advanced considerably in recent decades yet has been constrained
by a rolling series of dichotomies such as" resting versus activated" and" M1 versus M2." …

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 …

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 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 emerge as central players in brain disease

MW Salter, B Stevens - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
There has been an explosion of new findings recently giving us insights into the involvement
of microglia in central nervous system (CNS) disorders. A host of new molecular tools and …

Microglia function in the central nervous system during health and neurodegeneration

M Colonna, O Butovsky - Annual review of immunology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Microglia are resident cells of the brain that regulate brain development, maintenance of
neuronal networks, and injury repair. Microglia serve as brain macrophages but are distinct …

Robust map** of spatiotemporal trajectories and cell–cell interactions in healthy and diseased tissues

D Pham, X Tan, B Balderson, J Xu, LF Grice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies generate multiple data types from biological
samples, namely gene expression, physical distance between data points, and/or tissue …

How neuroinflammation contributes to neurodegeneration

RM Ransohoff - Science, 2016 - science.org
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal lobar dementia are among the most …

Microglia biology: one century of evolving concepts

M Prinz, S Jung, J Priller - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia were first recognized as a distinct cell population in the CNS one century ago. For
a long time, they were primarily considered to be phagocytes responsible for removing …

Microglia use TAM receptors to detect and engulf amyloid β plaques

Y Huang, KE Happonen, PG Burrola, C O'Connor… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Two microglial TAM receptor tyrosine kinases, Axl and Mer, have been linked to Alzheimer's
disease, but their roles in disease have not been tested experimentally. We find that in …