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 …

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 …

Microglia in Alzheimer's disease

DV Hansen, JE Hanson, M Sheng - Journal of Cell Biology, 2018 - rupress.org
Proliferation and activation of microglia in the brain, concentrated around amyloid plaques,
is a prominent feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Human genetics data point to a key role …

Distinct amyloid-β and tau-associated microglia profiles in Alzheimer's disease

E Gerrits, N Brouwer, SM Kooistra, ME Woodbury… - Acta …, 2021 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia and is characterized by
abnormal extracellular aggregates of amyloid-β and intraneuronal hyperphosphorylated tau …

Microglia heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease: insights from single-cell technologies

H Wang - Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system and play critical roles in
brain immunity, development, and homeostasis. The pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia in Alzheimer's disease: exploring how genetics and phenotype influence risk

A McQuade, M Blurton-Jones - Journal of molecular biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Research into the function of microglia has dramatically accelerated during the last few
years, largely due to recent genetic findings implicating microglia in virtually every …

Microglial gene signature reveals loss of homeostatic microglia associated with neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease

A Sobue, O Komine, Y Hara, F Endo… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2021 - Springer
Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation has been implicated in the pathogenesis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although microglia in aging and neurodegenerative disease …

Identification and therapeutic modulation of a pro-inflammatory subset of disease-associated-microglia in Alzheimer's disease

S Rangaraju, EB Dammer, SA Raza… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Background Disease-associated-microglia (DAM) represent transcriptionally-distinct and
neurodegeneration-specific microglial profiles with unclear significance in Alzheimer's …

Single cell RNA sequencing of human microglia uncovers a subset associated with Alzheimer's disease

M Olah, V Menon, N Habib, MF Taga, Y Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The extent of microglial heterogeneity in humans remains a central yet poorly explored
question in light of the development of therapies targeting this cell type. Here, we investigate …