Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

[HTML][HTML] An aging, pathology burden, and glial senescence build-up hypothesis for late onset Alzheimer's disease

V Lau, L Ramer, MÈ Tremblay - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) predominantly occurs as a late onset (LOAD) form involving
neurodegeneration and cognitive decline with progressive memory loss. Risk factors that …

[HTML][HTML] Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience

JC Udeochu, S Amin, Y Huang, L Fan, ERS Torres… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) precede clinical symptoms by years,
indicating a period of cognitive resilience before the onset of dementia. Here, we report that …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[PDF][PDF] TREM2-independent microgliosis promotes tau-mediated neurodegeneration in the presence of ApoE4

M Gratuze, JCM Schlachetzki, RDO Albanus, N Jain… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
In addition to tau and Aβ pathologies, inflammation plays an important role in Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Variants in APOE and TREM2 increase AD risk. ApoE4 exacerbates tau …

[HTML][HTML] TREM2 dependent and independent functions of microglia in Alzheimer's disease

J Hou, Y Chen, G Grajales-Reyes… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Microglia are central players in brain innate immunity and have been the subject of
extensive research in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this review, we aim to summarize the …

[PDF][PDF] C9orf72 deficiency promotes microglial-mediated synaptic loss in aging and amyloid accumulation

D Lall, I Lorenzini, TA Mota, S Bell, TE Mahan… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
C9orf72 repeat expansions cause inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS)/frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and result in both loss of C9orf72 protein expression …

Advancing cell therapy for neurodegenerative diseases

S Temple - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cell-based therapies are being developed for various neurodegenerative diseases that
affect the central nervous system (CNS). Concomitantly, the roles of individual cell types in …

Microglia become hypofunctional and release metalloproteases and tau seeds when phagocytosing live neurons with P301S tau aggregates

JH Brelstaff, M Mason, T Katsinelos, WA McEwan… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The microtubule-associated protein tau aggregates in multiple neurodegenerative diseases,
causing inflammation and changing the inflammatory signature of microglia by unknown …