Oligodendrocyte death and myelin loss in the cuprizone model: an updated overview of the intrinsic and extrinsic causes of cuprizone demyelination

M Zirngibl, P Assinck, A Sizov, AV Caprariello… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background The dietary consumption of cuprizone–a copper chelator–has long been known
to induce demyelination of specific brain structures and is widely used as model of multiple …

CNS remyelination and inflammation: From basic mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

RJM Franklin, M Simons - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Remyelination, the myelin regenerative response that follows demyelination, restores
saltatory conduction and function and sustains axon health. Its declining efficiency with …

SYK coordinates neuroprotective microglial responses in neurodegenerative disease

H Ennerfelt, EL Frost, DA Shapiro, C Holliday… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent studies have begun to reveal critical roles for the brain's professional phagocytes,
microglia, and their receptors in the control of neurotoxic amyloid beta (Aβ) and myelin …

TREM2 activation on microglia promotes myelin debris clearance and remyelination in a model of multiple sclerosis

F Cignarella, F Filipello, B Bollman, C Cantoni… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, demyelinating, and neurodegenerative disease
of the central nervous system (CNS) triggered by autoimmune mechanisms. Microglia are …

Microglia facilitate repair of demyelinated lesions via post-squalene sterol synthesis

SA Berghoff, L Spieth, T Sun, L Hosang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The repair of inflamed, demyelinated lesions as in multiple sclerosis (MS) necessitates the
clearance of cholesterol-rich myelin debris by microglia/macrophages and the switch from a …

Transcriptional and epigenetic decoding of the microglial aging process

X Li, Y Li, Y **, Y Zhang, J Wu, Z Xu, Y Huang, L Cai… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
As important immune cells, microglia undergo a series of alterations during aging that
increase the susceptibility to brain dysfunctions. However, the longitudinal characteristics of …

Microglia in central nervous system inflammation and multiple sclerosis pathology

S Voet, M Prinz, G van Loo - Trends in molecular medicine, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS). They have
important physiological functions in maintaining tissue homeostasis but also contribute to …

Microglia in multiple sclerosis: Protectors turn destroyers

VW Yong - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglia are implicated in all stages of multiple sclerosis (MS). Microglia alterations are
detected by positron emission tomography in people living with MS prior to the formation of …

Regenerating CNS myelin—from mechanisms to experimental medicines

RJM Franklin, C Ffrench-Constant - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Although the core concept of remyelination—based on the activation, migration, proliferation
and differentiation of CNS progenitors—has not changed over the past 20 years, our …

The pro-remyelination properties of microglia in the central nervous system

AF Lloyd, VE Miron - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Microglia are resident macrophages of the CNS that are involved in its development,
homeostasis and response to infection and damage. Microglial activation is a common …