Oligodendroglial alterations and the role of microglia in white matter injury: relevance to schizophrenia

LJ Chew, P Fusar-Poli, T Schmitz - Developmental neuroscience, 2013 - karger.com
Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness characterized by a broad range of
abnormal behaviors, including delusions and hallucinations, impaired cognitive function, as …

Possible contributions of myelin and oligodendrocyte dysfunction to schizophrenia

DG Stewart, KL Davis - International review of neurobiology, 2004 - Elsevier
Multiple lines of evidence point to an involvement of white matter in schizophrenia.
Microarray data, white matter imaging techniques, ultrastructural studies, quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Oligodendrocytes as a new therapeutic target in schizophrenia: from histopathological findings to neuron-oligodendrocyte interaction

FJ Raabe, L Slapakova, MJ Rossner… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Imaging and postmortem studies have revealed disturbed oligodendroglia-related
processes in patients with schizophrenia and provided much evidence for disturbed …

Role of microglia disturbances and immune-related marker abnormalities in cortical circuitry dysfunction in schizophrenia

DW Volk - Neurobiology of disease, 2017 - Elsevier
Studies of genetics, serum cytokines, and autoimmune illnesses suggest that immune-
related abnormalities are involved in the disease process of schizophrenia. Furthermore …

Linking oligodendrocyte and myelin dysfunction to neurocircuitry abnormalities in schizophrenia

N Takahashi, T Sakurai, KL Davis, JD Buxbaum - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Multiple lines of evidence in schizophrenia, from brain imaging, studies in postmortem
brains, and genetic association studies, have implicated oligodendrocyte and myelin …

[HTML][HTML] The inflamed brain in schizophrenia: the convergence of genetic and environmental risk factors that lead to uncontrolled neuroinflammation

AL Comer, M Carrier, MÈ Tremblay… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a disorder with a heterogeneous etiology involving complex interplay
between genetic and environmental risk factors. The immune system is now known to play …

[HTML][HTML] Linking white and grey matter in schizophrenia: oligodendrocyte and neuron pathology in the prefrontal cortex

M Hoistad, D Segal, N Takahashi, T Sakurai… - Frontiers in …, 2009 - frontiersin.org
Neuronal circuitry relies to a large extent on the presence of functional myelin produced in
the brain by oligodendrocytes. Schizophrenia has been proposed to arise partly from altered …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrastructural pathology of oligodendrocytes adjacent to microglia in prefrontal white matter in schizophrenia

NA Uranova, OV Vikhreva, VI Rakhmanova… - npj …, 2018 - nature.com
Microglial activation has been proposed to be involved in the pathophysiology of
schizophrenia (SCZ). We hypothesized that dystrophic alterations of oligodendrocytes …

Microglia activation in recent-onset schizophrenia: a quantitative (R)-[11C] PK11195 positron emission tomography study

BN Van Berckel, MG Bossong, R Boellaard, R Kloet… - Biological …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a brain disease involving progressive loss of gray matter
of unknown cause. Most likely, this loss reflects neuronal damage, which should, in turn, be …

Oligodendrocyte genes, white matter tract integrity, and cognition in schizophrenia

AN Voineskos, D Felsky, N Kovacevic, AK Tiwari… - Cerebral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Oligodendrocyte genes and white matter tracts have been implicated in the pathophysiology
of schizophrenia and may play an important etiopathogenic role in cognitive dysfunction in …