Microglia and monocytes in inflammatory CNS disease: integrating phenotype and function

AG Spiteri, CL Wishart, R Pamphlett, G Locatelli… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
In neurological diseases, the actions of microglia, the resident myeloid cells of the CNS
parenchyma, may diverge from, or intersect with, those of recruited monocytes to drive …

Microglia: agents of the CNS pro-inflammatory response

JA Rodríguez-Gómez, E Kavanagh… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The pro-inflammatory immune response driven by microglia is a key contributor to the
pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. Though the research of microglia …

Microglia and inflammatory responses in diabetic retinopathy

UM Kinuthia, A Wolf, T Langmann - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diabetic retinopathy is a vision-threatening disease affecting neurons and microvasculature
of the retina. The development of this disease is associated with the action of inflammatory …

Cell type-specific inference of differential expression in spatial transcriptomics

DM Cable, E Murray, V Shanmugam, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A central problem in spatial transcriptomics is detecting differentially expressed (DE) genes
within cell types across tissue context. Challenges to learning DE include changing cell type …

Severe Neuro-COVID is associated with peripheral immune signatures, autoimmunity and neurodegeneration: a prospective cross-sectional study

MM Etter, TA Martins, L Kulsvehagen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence links COVID-19 with acute and long-term neurological dysfunction.
However, the pathophysiological mechanisms resulting in central nervous system …

Comparative single-cell transcriptomic analysis of primate brains highlights human-specific regulatory evolution

H Suresh, M Crow, N Jorstad, R Hodge… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Enhanced cognitive function in humans is hypothesized to result from cortical expansion
and increased cellular diversity. However, the mechanisms that drive these phenotypic …

Single-cell RNA transcriptome analysis of CNS immune cells reveals CXCL16/CXCR6 as maintenance factors for tissue-resident T cells that drive synapse elimination

SF Rosen, AL Soung, W Yang, S Ai, M Kanmogne… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Emerging RNA viruses that target the central nervous system (CNS) lead to
cognitive sequelae in survivors. Studies in humans and mice infected with West Nile virus …

Dysregulation of GABAergic signaling in neurodevelomental disorders: targeting cation-chloride co-transporters to re-establish a proper E/I balance

E Cherubini, G Di Cristo, M Avoli - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The construction of the brain relies on a series of well-defined genetically and experience-or
activity-dependent mechanisms which allow to adapt to the external environment. Disruption …

Increased macrophages and C1qA, C3, C4 transcripts in the midbrain of people with schizophrenia

TD Purves-Tyson, K Robinson, AM Brown… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Increased cytokine and inflammatory-related transcripts are found in the ventral midbrain, a
dopamine neuron-rich region associated with schizophrenia symptoms. In fact, half of …

Immune response in neurological pathology: emerging role of central and peripheral immune crosstalk

AP Passaro, AL Lebos, Y Yao, SL Stice - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation is a key component of neurological disorders and is an important
therapeutic target; however, immunotherapies have been largely unsuccessful. In cases …