Molecular and cellular mechanisms of selective vulnerability in neurodegenerative diseases

M Kampmann - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
The selective vulnerability of specific neuronal subtypes is a hallmark of neurodegenerative
diseases. In this Review, I summarize our current understanding of the brain regions and …

Heterogeneity and molecular markers for CNS glial cells revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

J Sun, Y Song, Z Chen, J Qiu, S Zhu, L Wu… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Glial cells, including astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia, are the major components
in the central nervous system (CNS). Studies have revealed the heterogeneity of each glial …

[HTML][HTML] The cholesterol transporter NPC1 is essential for epigenetic regulation and maturation of oligodendrocyte lineage cells

TJ Kunkel, A Townsend, KA Sullivan, J Merlet… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The intracellular cholesterol transporter NPC1 functions in late endosomes and lysosomes
to efflux unesterified cholesterol, and its deficiency causes Niemann–Pick disease Type C …

Oligodendrocyte lineage cells: Advances in development, disease, and heterogeneity

JQ Wang, MY Gao, R Gao, KH Zhao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) originate in the ventricular zone (VZ) of the brain
and spinal cord, and their primary function is to differentiate into oligodendrocytes (OLs) …

[HTML][HTML] Neurogenesis potential of oligodendrocyte precursor cells from oligospheres and injured spinal cord

Q Zhao, Y Zhu, Y Ren, S Yin, L Yu, R Huang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to long-lasting oligodendrocyte death and
extensive demyelination in the lesion area. Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) are the …

[HTML][HTML] Epigallocatechin-3-gallate selenium nanoparticles for neuroprotection by scavenging reactive oxygen species and reducing inflammation

Y Wang, W Luo, F Lin, W Liu, R Gu - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severely crippling injury. Scavenging reactive oxygen
species (ROS) and suppressing inflammation to ameliorate secondary injury using …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced oxidative phosphorylation, re-organized intracellular signaling, and epigenetic de-silencing as revealed by oligodendrocyte translatome analysis …

MD Forston, GZ Wei, JH Chariker, T Stephenson… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing the loss of oligodendrocytes (OLs) is a major goal for neuroprotection after spinal
cord injury (SCI). Therefore, the OL translatome was determined in Ribotag: Plp1-CreERT2 …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental origin of oligodendrocytes determines their function in the adult brain

S Foerster, EM Floriddia, D van Bruggen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In the mouse embryonic forebrain, developmentally distinct oligodendrocyte progenitor cell
populations and their progeny, oligodendrocytes, emerge from three distinct regions in a …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals the dynamics of human immune cells during early fetal skin development

Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Hu, X Li, L Sun, Y Peng, Y Sun, B Liu… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
The immune system of skin develops in stages in mice. However, the developmental
dynamics of immune cells in human skin remains elusive. Here, we perform transcriptome …

Targeting microglia–oligodendrocyte crosstalk in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders

R Rahimian, K Perlman, C Canonne, N Mechawar - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microglia are resident macrophages of CNS that are involved in brain
homeostasis.•Oligodendrocytes are myelinating cells of the CNS that metabolically support …