Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

C Escartin, E Galea, A Lakatos, JP O'Callaghan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes are astrocytes undergoing morphological, molecular, and functional
remodeling in response to injury, disease, or infection of the CNS. Although this remodeling …

[HTML][HTML] Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation

A Fernández-Castañeda, P Lu, AC Geraghty, E Song… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
COVID survivors frequently experience lingering neurological symptoms that resemble
cancer-therapy-related cognitive impairment, a syndrome for which white matter microglial …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in astrocytes and microglia

TCW Julia, L Qian, NH Pipalia, MJ Chao, SA Liang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The impact of apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4), the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD), on human brain cellular function remains unclear. Here, we investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes undergo subtype-specific transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease

JS Sadick, MR O'Dea, P Hasel, T Dykstra, A Faustin… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Resolving glial contributions to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is necessary because changes in
neuronal function, such as reduced synaptic density, altered electrophysiological properties …

[HTML][HTML] A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse mediators of Alzheimer's risk

AC Yang, RT Vest, F Kern, DP Lee, M Agam, CA Maat… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The human brain vasculature is of great medical importance: its dysfunction causes
disability and death, and the specialized structure it forms—the blood–brain barrier …

Strategies for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier

GC Terstappen, AH Meyer, RD Bell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Achieving sufficient delivery across the blood–brain barrier is a key challenge in the
development of drugs to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders. This is particularly …

CXCR6 orchestrates brain CD8+ T cell residency and limits mouse Alzheimer's disease pathology

W Su, J Saravia, I Risch, S Rankin, C Guy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), are characterized by
innate immune-mediated inflammation, but functional and mechanistic effects of the …

SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and histology to identify spatial domains and spatially variable genes by graph convolutional network

J Hu, X Li, K Coleman, A Schroeder, N Ma, DJ Irwin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) technologies have enabled
comprehensive characterization of gene expression patterns in the context of tissue …

[HTML][HTML] A transcription factor atlas of directed differentiation

J Joung, S Ma, T Tay, KR Geiger-Schuller… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene programs, thereby controlling diverse cellular
processes and cell states. To comprehensively understand TFs and the programs they …