Microglial depletion with CSF1R inhibitor during chronic phase of experimental traumatic brain injury reduces neurodegeneration and neurological deficits

RJ Henry, RM Ritzel, JP Barrett, SJ Doran… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Chronic neuroinflammation with sustained microglial activation occurs following severe
traumatic brain injury (TBI) and is believed to contribute to subsequent neurodegeneration …

Chronic cortical inflammation, cognitive impairment, and immune reactivity associated with diffuse brain injury are ameliorated by forced turnover of microglia

CE Bray, KG Witcher, D Adekunle-Adegbite… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with an increased risk of cognitive, psychiatric, and
neurodegenerative complications that may develop after injury. Increased microglial …

Traumatic brain injury causes chronic cortical inflammation and neuronal dysfunction mediated by microglia

KG Witcher, CE Bray, T Chunchai, F Zhao… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to significant neuropsychiatric problems and
neurodegenerative pathologies, which develop and persist years after injury …

Microglial repopulation resolves inflammation and promotes brain recovery after injury

RA Rice, J Pham, RJ Lee, AR Najafi, BL West… - Glia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia mediate chronic neuroinflammation following central nervous system (CNS)
disease or injury, and in doing so, damage the local brain environment by impairing …

Elimination of microglia improves functional outcomes following extensive neuronal loss in the hippocampus

RA Rice, EE Spangenberg… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
With severe injury or disease, microglia become chronically activated and damage the local
brain environment, likely contributing to cognitive decline. We previously discovered that …

Traumatic brain injury‐induced neuronal damage in the somatosensory cortex causes formation of rod‐shaped microglia that promote astrogliosis and persistent …

KG Witcher, CE Bray, JE Dziabis, DB McKim… - Glia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia undergo dynamic structural and transcriptional changes during the immune
response to traumatic brain injury (TBI). For example, TBI causes microglia to form rod …

Depletion of microglia exacerbates postischemic inflammation and brain injury

WN Jin, SXY Shi, Z Li, M Li, K Wood… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Brain ischemia elicits microglial activation and microglia survival depend on signaling
through colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R). Although depletion of microglia has …

Selective CDK inhibitor limits neuroinflammation and progressive neurodegeneration after brain trauma

SV Kabadi, BA Stoica, KR Byrnes… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) induces secondary injury mechanisms, including cell-cycle
activation (CCA), which lead to neuronal cell death, microglial activation, and neurologic …

Interferon-β plays a detrimental role in experimental traumatic brain injury by enhancing neuroinflammation that drives chronic neurodegeneration

JP Barrett, RJ Henry, KA Shirey, SJ Doran… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
DNA damage and type I interferons (IFNs) contribute to inflammatory responses after
traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI-induced activation of microglia and peripherally-derived …

Microglial replacement in the aged brain restricts neuroinflammation following intracerebral hemorrhage

X Li, X Gao, W Zhang, M Liu, Z Han, M Li, P Lei… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Aged microglia display augmented inflammatory activity after neural injury. Although aging
is a risk factor for poor outcome after brain insults, the precise impact of aging-related …