Markers of microglia in post-mortem brain samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review

KE Hopperton, D Mohammad, MO Trépanier… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Neuroinflammation is proposed as one of the mechanisms by which Alzheimer's disease
pathology, including amyloid-β plaques, leads to neuronal death and dysfunction. Increases …

Functional plasticity of microglia: a review

WJ Streit, MB Graeber, GW Kreutzberg - Glia, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
The present review summarizes recently acquired data in vivo, which support a role of CNS
microglia as a source of defense cells in the CNS capable of carrying out certain immune …

Local distribution of microglia in the normal adult human central nervous system differs by up to one order of magnitude

M Mittelbronn, K Dietz, HJ Schluesener… - Acta …, 2001 - Springer
Although microglia are considered to be a sensitive sensor for pathological processes in the
central nervous system, there are only a few studies about the distribution and density of …

Microglia, macrophages, perivascular macrophages, and pericytes: a review of function and identification

GJ Guillemin, BJ Brew - Journal of Leucocyte Biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The phenotypic differentiation of systemic macrophages that have infiltrated the central
nervous system, pericytes, perivascular macrophages, and the “real” resident microglial …

Epigenetic changes in Alzheimer's disease: decrements in DNA methylation

D Mastroeni, A Grover, E Delvaux, C Whiteside… - Neurobiology of …, 2010 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a vital component of the epigenetic machinery that orchestrates changes
in multiple genes and helps regulate gene expression in all known vertebrates. We …

A histochemical study of iron, transferrin, and ferritin in Alzheimer's diseased brains

JR Connor, SL Menzies, SM St. Martin… - Journal of …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Immunohistochemical and histochemical staining were performed on Alzheimer's diseased
brain tissue obtained at autopsy. The iron‐regulatory proteins transferrin and ferritin as well …

CD36, a class B scavenger receptor, is expressed on microglia in Alzheimer's disease brains and can mediate production of reactive oxygen species in response to β …

IS Coraci, J Husemann, JW Berman, C Hulette… - The American journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the senile plaque, composed of β-amyloid
fibrils, microglia, astrocytes, and dystrophic neurites. We reported previously that class A …

Epigenetic differences in cortical neurons from a pair of monozygotic twins discordant for Alzheimer's disease

D Mastroeni, A McKee, A Grover, J Rogers… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation, is capable of modulating coordinate expression of large numbers of genes
across many different pathways, and may therefore warrant investigation for their potential …

P2Y12 receptor is expressed on human microglia under physiological conditions throughout development and is sensitive to neuroinflammatory diseases

A Mildner, H Huang, J Radke, W Stenzel, J Priller - Glia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS), which are
essential for immune defence and critically contribute to neuronal functions during …

Alzheimer's disease. A double-labeling immunohistochemical study of senile plaques.

DW Dickson, J Farlo, P Davies, H Crystal… - The American journal …, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The senile plaque is one of the histopathologic changes that characterizes Alzheimer's
disease and the aging brain. The histopathology of senile plaques was studied using double …