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 …

Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

Deep learning-based predictive identification of neural stem cell differentiation

Y Zhu, R Huang, Z Wu, S Song, L Cheng… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) into neurons is proposed to be critical in
devising potential cell-based therapeutic strategies for central nervous system (CNS) …

Genetics of human brain development

Y Zhou, H Song, G Ming - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Brain development in humans is achieved through precise spatiotemporal genetic control,
the mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. Recently, integration of technological …

Amplification of human interneuron progenitors promotes brain tumors and neurological defects

OL Eichmüller, NS Corsini, Á Vértesy, I Morassut… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Evolutionary development of the human brain is characterized by the expansion of various
brain regions. Here, we show that developmental processes specific to humans are …
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E Braun, M Danan-Gotthold, LE Borm, KW Lee… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The adult human brain comprises more than a thousand distinct neuronal and glial cell
types, a diversity that emerges during early brain development. To reveal the precise …

Map** human adult hippocampal neurogenesis with single-cell transcriptomics: reconciling controversy or fueling the debate?

G Tosoni, D Ayyildiz, J Bryois, W Macnair… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The notion of exploiting the regenerative potential of the human brain in physiological aging
or neurological diseases represents a particularly attractive alternative to conventional …

Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes

MG Andrews, T Mukhtar, UC Eze… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) readily infects a variety
of cell types impacting the function of vital organ systems, with particularly severe impact on …

Cell of all trades: oligodendrocyte precursor cells in synaptic, vascular, and immune function

LA Akay, AH Effenberger, LH Tsai - Genes & development, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are not merely a transitory progenitor cell type, but
rather a distinct and heterogeneous population of glia with various functions in the …