Human microglia show unique transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease

KE Prater, KJ Green, S Mamde, W Sun, A Cochoit… - Nature Aging, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia, the innate immune cells of the brain, influence Alzheimer's disease (AD)
progression and are potential therapeutic targets. However, microglia exhibit diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Alzheimer's patient microglia exhibit enhanced aging and unique transcriptional activation

K Srinivasan, BA Friedman, A Etxeberria, MA Huntley… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Damage-associated microglia (DAM) profiles observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related
mouse models reflect an activation state that could modulate AD risk or progression. To …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease at single-cell level. Are there common patterns in humans and mice?

Y Chen, M Colonna - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2021 - rupress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular aggregates of amyloid β peptides,
intraneuronal tau aggregates, and neuronal death. This pathology triggers activation of …

The transcriptional landscape of microglial genes in aging and neurodegenerative disease

LW Bonham, DW Sirkis, JS Yokoyama - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microglia, the brain-resident myeloid cells, are strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) pathogenesis by human genetics. However, the mechanisms by which microglial gene …

Transcriptomic analysis of purified human cortical microglia reveals age-associated changes

TF Galatro, IR Holtman, AM Lerario, ID Vainchtein… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microglia are essential for CNS homeostasis and innate neuroimmune function, and play
important roles in neurodegeneration and brain aging. Here we present gene expression …

Diverse brain myeloid expression profiles reveal distinct microglial activation states and aspects of Alzheimer's disease not evident in mouse models

BA Friedman, K Srinivasan, G Ayalon, WJ Meilandt… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Microglia, the CNS-resident immune cells, play important roles in disease, but the spectrum
of their possible activation states is not well understood. We derived co-regulated gene …

Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer's disease progression

N Sun, MB Victor, YP Park, X Xiong, AN Scannail… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Altered microglial states affect neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and disease but
remain poorly understood. Here, we report 194,000 single-nucleus microglial transcriptomes …

Microglial translational profiling reveals a convergent APOE pathway from aging, amyloid, and tau

SS Kang, MTW Ebbert, KE Baker, C Cook… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disease characterized by
amyloidosis, tauopathy, and activation of microglia, the brain resident innate immune cells …

Transcriptional and epigenetic decoding of the microglial aging process

X Li, Y Li, Y Jin, 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 …

Microglial brain region− dependent diversity and selective regional sensitivities to aging

K Grabert, T Michoel, MH Karavolos, S Clohisey… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Microglia have critical roles in neural development, homeostasis and neuroinflammation
and are increasingly implicated in age-related neurological dysfunction. Neurodegeneration …