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 …

[HTML][HTML] A unique microglia type associated with restricting development of Alzheimer's disease

H Keren-Shaul, A Spinrad, A Weiner… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a detrimental neurodegenerative disease with no effective
treatments. Due to cellular heterogeneity, defining the roles of immune cell subsets in AD …

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 …

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 …

Microglial signatures and their role in health and disease

O Butovsky, HL Weiner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Microglia are the primary innate immune cells in the CNS. In the healthy brain, they exhibit a
unique molecular homeostatic 'signature', consisting of a specific transcriptional profile and …

Alzheimer's disease hypothesis and related therapies

X Du, X Wang, M Geng - Translational neurodegeneration, 2018 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the most
common cause for dementia. There are many hypotheses about AD, including abnormal …

Interplay between innate immunity and Alzheimer disease: APOE and TREM2 in the spotlight

Y Shi, DM Holtzman - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease is more than a pure proteopathy. Chronic neuroinflammation stands out
during the pathogenesis of the disease and in turn modulates disease progression. The …

A cell therapy approach to restore microglial Trem2 function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Y Yoo, G Neumayer, Y Shibuya, MMD Mader… - Cell stem cell, 2023 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains one of the grand challenges facing human society. Much
controversy exists around the complex and multifaceted pathogenesis of this prevalent …

[HTML][HTML] Deep multilayer brain proteomics identifies molecular networks in Alzheimer's disease progression

B Bai, X Wang, Y Li, PC Chen, K Yu, KK Dey… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) displays a long asymptomatic stage before dementia. We
characterize AD stage-associated molecular networks by profiling 14,513 proteins and …