NLR members NLRC4 and NLRP3 mediate sterile inflammasome activation in microglia and astrocytes

L Freeman, H Guo, CN David, WJ Brickey… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
Inflammation in the brain accompanies several high-impact neurological diseases including
multiple sclerosis (MS), stroke, and Alzheimer's disease. Neuroinflammation is sterile, as …

[HTML][HTML] Unique primed status of microglia under the systemic autoimmune condition of lupus-prone mice

A Nomura, D Noto, G Murayama, A Chiba… - Arthritis Research & …, 2019 - Springer
Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized
by the production of various autoantibodies. This disease causes disabling neuropsychiatric …

C3aR inhibition reduces neurodegeneration in experimental lupus

A Jacob, L Bao, J Brorson, RJ Quigg, JJ Alexander - Lupus, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Complement activation is an important aspect of systemic lupus erythematosus. In this study
we investigated the role of C3a/C3a receptor (R) signaling in brains of the lupus model …

Systemic inflammation impairs microglial Aβ clearance through NLRP 3 inflammasome

D Tejera, D Mercan, JM Sanchez‐Caro… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent type of dementia and is caused by the deposition
of extracellular amyloid‐beta and abnormal tau phosphorylation. Neuroinflammation has …

Neuroprotective versus neuroinflammatory roles of complement: from development to disease

M Kanmogne, RS Klein - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
Complement proteins are ancient components of innate immunity that have emerged as
crucial regulators of neural networks. We discuss these roles in the context of the CNS …

C5a/CD88 signaling alters blood–brain barrier integrity in lupus through nuclear factor‐κB

A Jacob, B Hack, P Chen, RJ Quigg… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2011) 119, 1041–1051. Abstract Inflammation is a key factor in a number of
neurodegenerative diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus. The complement …

[HTML][HTML] Classical complement cascade initiating C1q protein within neurons in the aged rhesus macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

D Datta, SN Leslie, YM Morozov, A Duque… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, aging, and Alzheimer's disease is
associated with spine and synapse loss from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) layer …

Zinc status alters Alzheimer's disease progression through NLRP3-dependent inflammation

J Rivers-Auty, VS Tapia, CS White… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with a dramatically
increasing prevalence and no disease-modifying treatment. Inflammatory lifestyle factors …

[HTML][HTML] Heterozygous CX3CR1 deficiency in microglia restores neuronal β-amyloid clearance pathways and slows progression of Alzheimer's like-disease in PS1 …

SE Hickman, EK Allison, U Coleman… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
CX3CR1 is a chemokine receptor expressed on microglia that binds Fractalkine (CX3CL1)
and regulates microglial recruitment to sites of neuroinflammation. Full deletion of CX3CR1 …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting microglial and neuronal toll-like receptor 2 in synucleinopathies

S Kwon, M Iba, E Masliah, C Kim - Experimental Neurobiology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Synucleinopathies are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the progressive
accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) in neurons and glia and include Parkinson's disease …