Microglia in Alzheimer's disease: Pathogenesis, mechanisms, and therapeutic potentials

J Miao, H Ma, Y Yang, Y Liao, C Lin, J Zheng… - Frontiers in aging …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by protein
aggregation in the brain. Recent studies have revealed the critical role of microglia in AD …

The multiplex model of the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

R Sims, M Hill, J Williams - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Genes play a strong role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with late-onset AD showing heritability
of 58–79% and early-onset AD showing over 90%. Genetic association provides a robust …

[HTML][HTML] Concerted type I interferon signaling in microglia and neural cells promotes memory impairment associated with amyloid β plaques

ER Roy, G Chiu, S Li, NE Propson, R Kanchi, B Wang… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The principal signals that drive memory and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) remain elusive. Here, we revealed brain-wide cellular reactions to type I interferon (IFN …

Genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer's disease: bigger is not always better

V Escott-Price, J Hardy - Brain Communications, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As the size of genome-wide association studies increase, the number of associated trait loci
identified inevitably increase. One welcomes this if it allows the better delineation of the …

Novel Alzheimer risk genes determine the microglia response to amyloid‐β but not to TAU pathology

A Sierksma, A Lu, R Mancuso, N Fattorelli… - EMBO molecular …, 2020 - embopress.org
Polygenic risk scores have identified that genetic variants without genome‐wide significance
still add to the genetic risk of develo** Alzheimer's disease (AD). Whether and how …

A genetic link between risk for Alzheimer's disease and severe COVID-19 outcomes via the OAS1 gene

N Magusali, AC Graham, TM Piers, P Panichnantakul… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Recently, we reported oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) contributed to the risk of
Alzheimer's disease, by its enrichment in transcriptional networks expressed by microglia …

Links between COVID-19 and Parkinson's disease/Alzheimer's disease: reciprocal impacts, medical care strategies and underlying mechanisms

P Huang, LY Zhang, YY Tan, SD Chen - Translational Neurodegeneration, 2023 - Springer
The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on patients with
neurodegenerative diseases and the specific neurological manifestations of COVID-19 have …

Interferon-γ signaling synergizes with LRRK2 in neurons and microglia derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

V Panagiotakopoulou, D Ivanyuk, S De Cicco… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease-associated kinase LRRK2 has been linked to IFN type II (IFN-γ)
response in infections and to dopaminergic neuronal loss. However, whether and how …

Trem2 promotes anti-inflammatory responses in microglia and is suppressed under pro-inflammatory conditions

W Liu, O Taso, R Wang, S Bayram… - Human molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies have reported that, amongst other microglial genes,
variants in TREM2 can profoundly increase the incidence of develo** Alzheimer's disease …

A dynamical systems approach for multiscale synthesis of Alzheimer's pathogenesis

J Rollo, J Crawford, J Hardy - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a spatially dynamic pathology that implicates a growing volume
of multiscale data spanning genetic, cellular, tissue, and organ levels of the organization …