Synaptic degeneration in Alzheimer disease

M Tzioras, RI McGeachan, CS Durrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline in older
individuals accompanied by the presence of two pathological protein aggregates—amyloid …

Microglia: Immune and non-immune functions

K Borst, AA Dumas, M Prinz - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
As resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are associated
with diverse functions essential to the developing and adult brain during homeostasis and …

Regulation of phospholipid distribution in the lipid bilayer by flippases and scramblases

T Sakuragi, S Nagata - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Cellular membranes function as permeability barriers that separate cells from the external
environment or partition cells into distinct compartments. These membranes are lipid …

Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS

TE Faust, G Gunner, DP Schafer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 60 years have passed since the initial discovery by Hubel and Wiesel that changes
in neuronal activity can elicit developmental rewiring of the central nervous system (CNS) …

Microglia regulation of synaptic plasticity and learning and memory

J Cornell, S Salinas, HY Huang… - Neural regeneration …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system. Microglia possess
varied morphologies and functions. Under normal physiological conditions, microglia mainly …

Generation of vascularized brain organoids to study neurovascular interactions

XY Sun, XC Ju, Y Li, PM Zeng, J Wu, YY Zhou… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Brain organoids have been used to recapitulate the processes of brain development and
related diseases. However, the lack of vasculatures, which regulate neurogenesis and brain …

RBG motif bridge-like lipid transport proteins: structure, functions, and open questions

M Hanna, A Guillén-Samander… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The life of eukaryotic cells requires the transport of lipids between membranes, which are
separated by the aqueous environment of the cytosol. Vesicle-mediated traffic along the …

Complement C1q-dependent excitatory and inhibitory synapse elimination by astrocytes and microglia in Alzheimer's disease mouse models

B Dejanovic, T Wu, MC Tsai, D Graykowski… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia and complement can mediate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). By
integrative multi-omics analysis, here we show that astrocytic and microglial proteins are …

Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases

T Bartels, S De Schepper, S Hong - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives
and livelihoods around the world. To date, however, no early biomarkers or effective …

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 …