Emerging roles of innate and adaptive immunity in Alzheimer's disease

X Chen, DM Holtzman - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, with
characteristic extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition and intracellular accumulation of …

Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Microglia-mediated T cell infiltration drives neurodegeneration in tauopathy

X Chen, M Firulyova, M Manis, J Herz, I Smirnov… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Extracellular deposition of amyloid-β as neuritic plaques and intracellular accumulation of
hyperphosphorylated, aggregated tau as neurofibrillary tangles are two of the characteristic …

Spatially informed cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics

Y Ma, X Zhou - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Many spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies do not have single-cell resolution but
measure the average gene expression for each spot from a mixture of cells of potentially …

Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease

D Erny, N Dokalis, C Mezö, A Castoldi, O Mossad… - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
As tissue macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia constitute the pivotal
immune cells of this organ. Microglial features are strongly dependent on environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The blood–brain barrier in health and disease: Important unanswered questions

CP Profaci, RN Munji, RS Pulido… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
The blood vessels vascularizing the central nervous system exhibit a series of distinct
properties that tightly control the movement of ions, molecules, and cells between the blood …

Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: the promise of combination strategies

M Bausart, V Préat, A Malfanti - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment has remained almost unchanged for more than 20 years. The
current standard of care involves surgical resection (if possible) followed by concomitant …

Microglia mediate forgetting via complement-dependent synaptic elimination

C Wang, H Yue, Z Hu, Y Shen, J Ma, J Li, XD Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Synapses between engram cells are believed to be substrates for memory storage, and the
weakening or loss of these synapses leads to the forgetting of related memories. We found …

Developmental heterogeneity of microglia and brain myeloid cells revealed by deep single-cell RNA sequencing

Q Li, Z Cheng, L Zhou, S Darmanis, NF Neff, J Okamoto… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Microglia are increasingly recognized for their major contributions during brain development
and neurodegenerative disease. It is currently unknown whether these functions are carried …

Glial cells: role of the immune response in ischemic stroke

S Xu, J Lu, A Shao, JH Zhang, J Zhang - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ischemic stroke, which accounts for 75–80% of all strokes, is the predominant cause of
morbidity and mortality worldwide. The post-stroke immune response has recently emerged …