[HTML][HTML] Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

RC Paolicelli, A Sierra, B Stevens, ME Tremblay… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Microglial research has advanced considerably in recent decades yet has been constrained
by a rolling series of dichotomies such as" resting versus activated" and" M1 versus M2." …

Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

[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] Microglia ferroptosis is regulated by SEC24B and contributes to neurodegeneration

SK Ryan, M Zelic, Y Han, E Teeple, L Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Iron dysregulation has been implicated in multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including
Parkinson's disease (PD). Iron-loaded microglia are frequently found in affected brain …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure of iPSC-derived human microglia to brain substrates enables the generation and manipulation of diverse transcriptional states in vitro

MJ Dolan, M Therrien, S Jereb, T Kamath… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia, the macrophages of the brain parenchyma, are key players in neurodegenerative
diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. These cells adopt distinct transcriptional subtypes …

Directed evolution of adeno-associated virus for efficient gene delivery to microglia

R Lin, Y Zhou, T Yan, R Wang, H Li, Z Wu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS), microglia orchestrate
immune responses and dynamically sculpt neural circuits in the CNS. Microglial dysfunction …

Integrating spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomic data elucidates microglial-specific responses in female cynomolgus macaques with depressive-like behaviors

J Wu, Y Li, Y Huang, L Liu, H Zhang, C Nagy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder represents a serious public health challenge worldwide;
however, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms are mostly unknown. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular cytoarchitecture of the adult mouse brain

J Langlieb, NS Sachdev, KS Balderrama, NM Nadaf… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The function of the mammalian brain relies upon the specification and spatial positioning of
diversely specialized cell types. Yet, the molecular identities of the cell types and their …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the treatment-naive ecosystem of human melanoma brain metastasis

J Biermann, JC Melms, AD Amin, Y Wang, LA Caprio… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) frequently occurs in patients with advanced melanoma;
yet, our understanding of the underlying salient biology is rudimentary. Here, we performed …

Early Alzheimer's disease pathology in human cortex involves transient cell states

V Gazestani, T Kamath, NM Nadaf, A Dougalis… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular perturbations underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are primarily studied in human
postmortem samples and model organisms. Here, we generated a single-nucleus atlas from …