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 …

Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

Microglia regulate central nervous system myelin growth and integrity

NB McNamara, DAD Munro, N Bestard-Cuche… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Myelin is required for the function of neuronal axons in the central nervous system, but the
mechanisms that support myelin health are unclear. Although macrophages in the central …

Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

TE Bakken, NL Jorstad, Q Hu, BB Lake, W Tian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally
conserved across mammals. Here, using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic …

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 …

CD8+ T cells induce interferon-responsive oligodendrocytes and microglia in white matter aging

T Kaya, N Mattugini, L Liu, H Ji… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark of nervous system aging is a decline of white matter volume and function, but the
underlying mechanisms leading to white matter pathology are unknown. In the present …

A shared disease-associated oligodendrocyte signature among multiple CNS pathologies

M Kenigsbuch, P Bost, S Halevi, Y Chang, S Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, perturbing neuronal and
non-neuronal cell populations. In this study, using single-cell transcriptomics, we mapped all …

Single-cell CUT&Tag profiles histone modifications and transcription factors in complex tissues

M Bartosovic, M Kabbe, G Castelo-Branco - Nature biotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
In contrast to single-cell approaches for measuring gene expression and DNA accessibility,
single-cell methods for analyzing histone modifications are limited by low sensitivity and …

Young CSF restores oligodendrogenesis and memory in aged mice via Fgf17

T Iram, F Kern, A Kaur, S Myneni, AR Morningstar… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent understanding of how the systemic environment shapes the brain throughout life has
led to numerous intervention strategies to slow brain ageing,–. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

Astrocyte crosstalk in CNS inflammation

M Linnerbauer, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes control multiple processes in the nervous system in health and disease. It is now
clear that specific astrocyte subsets or activation states are associated with specific genomic …