Macrophage phagocytosis after spinal cord injury: when friends become foes

J Van Broeckhoven, D Sommer, D Dooley, S Hendrix… - Brain, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
After spinal cord injury, macrophages can exert either beneficial or detrimental effects
depending on their phenotype. Aside from their critical role in inflammatory responses …

Cell-based drug delivery systems with innate homing capability as a novel nanocarrier platform

A Choi, K Javius-Jones, S Hong… - International journal of …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have been designed to treat various diseases.
However, many problems remain, such as inadequate tumor targeting and poor therapeutic …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …

[HTML][HTML] Neural stem cells traffic functional mitochondria via extracellular vesicles

L Peruzzotti-Jametti, JD Bernstock, CM Willis… - PLoS …, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation induces recovery in animal models of central
nervous system (CNS) diseases. Although the replacement of lost endogenous cells was …

A highly efficient human pluripotent stem cell microglia model displays a neuronal-co-culture-specific expression profile and inflammatory response

W Haenseler, SN Sansom, J Buchrieser, SE Newey… - Stem cell reports, 2017‏ - cell.com
Microglia are increasingly implicated in brain pathology, particularly neurodegenerative
disease, with many genes implicated in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and motor neuron disease …

Chimeric antigen receptor macrophages activated through TLR4 or IFN-γ receptors suppress breast cancer growth by targeting VEGFR2

Z Duan, Z Li, Z Wang, C Chen, Y Luo - Cancer Immunology …, 2023‏ - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) is a promising immunotherapy strategy of
anti-tumor due to its high infiltration, direct phagocytosis of tumor cells, immunomodulation of …

The physiology of foamy phagocytes in multiple sclerosis

E Grajchen, JJA Hendriks, JFJ Bogie - Acta neuropathologica …, 2018‏ - Springer
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system characterized by
massive infiltration of immune cells, demyelination, and axonal loss. Active MS lesions …

Activation of the immune-metabolic receptor GPR84 enhances inflammation and phagocytosis in macrophages

C Recio, D Lucy, GSD Purvis, P Iveson… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
GPR84 is a member of the metabolic G protein-coupled receptor family, and its expression
has been described predominantly in immune cells. GPR84 activation is involved in the …

[HTML][HTML] APOE4 confers transcriptomic and functional alterations to primary mouse microglia

SI Machlovi, SM Neuner, BM Hemmer, R Khan… - Neurobiology of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Common genetic variants in more than forty loci modulate risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD).
AD risk alleles are enriched within enhancers active in myeloid cells, suggesting that …

SFRP1 modulates astrocyte‐to‐microglia crosstalk in acute and chronic neuroinflammation

J Rueda‐Carrasco, MJ Martin‐Bermejo, G Pereyra… - EMBO …, 2021‏ - embopress.org
Neuroinflammation is a common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. It fosters a
dysfunctional neuron–microglia–astrocyte crosstalk that, in turn, maintains microglial cells in …