Immune responses to retinal gene therapy using adeno-associated viral vectors–Implications for treatment success and safety

K Bucher, E Rodríguez-Bocanegra… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) is the leading vector for gene therapy in the
retina. As non-pathogenic, non-integrating, replication deficient vector, the recombinant virus …

Retinal microglia: Functions and diseases

W Fan, W Huang, J Chen, N Li, L Mao, S Hou - Immunology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia, the resident immune cells in the retina and nervous system, make irreplaceable
contributions to the maintenance of normal homeostasis and immune surveillance of these …

Neuroinflammation, memory, and depression: new approaches to hippocampal neurogenesis

A Wu, J Zhang - Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2023 - Springer
As one of most common and severe mental disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD)
significantly increases the risks of premature death and other medical conditions for patients …

Microglia versus monocytes: distinct roles in degenerative diseases of the retina

C Yu, C Roubeix, F Sennlaub, DR Saban - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Unlike in the healthy mammalian retina, macrophages in retinal degenerative states are not
solely comprised of microglia but may include monocyte-derived recruits. Recent studies …

Microglia suppress Ascl1-induced retinal regeneration in mice

L Todd, C Finkbeiner, CK Wong, MJ Hooper, TA Reh - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The innate immune system plays key roles in tissue regeneration. For example, microglia
promote neurogenesis in Müller glia in birds and fish after injury. Although mammalian …

More than meets the eye: The role of microglia in healthy and diseased retina

E Murenu, MJ Gerhardt, M Biel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are the main resident immune cells of the nervous system and as such they are
involved in multiple roles ranging from tissue homeostasis to response to insults and circuit …

Microglial polarization in TBI: Signaling pathways and influencing pharmaceuticals

YF Li, X Ren, L Zhang, YH Wang… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious disease that threatens life and health of people. It
poses a great economic burden on the healthcare system. Thus, seeking effective therapy to …

Label-free adaptive optics imaging of human retinal macrophage distribution and dynamics

DX Hammer, A Agrawal, R Villanueva… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Microglia are resident central nervous system macrophages and the first responders to
neural injury. Until recently, microglia have been studied only in animal models with …

Alzheimer's genes in microglia: a risk worth investigating

A Sudwarts, G Thinakaran - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2023 - Springer
Despite expressing many key risk genes, the role of microglia in late-onset Alzheimer's
disease pathophysiology is somewhat ambiguous, with various phenotypes reported to be …

Temporal single-cell atlas of non-neuronal retinal cells reveals dynamic, coordinated multicellular responses to central nervous system injury

I Benhar, J Ding, W Yan, IE Whitney, A Jacobi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-neuronal cells are key to the complex cellular interplay that follows central nervous
system insult. To understand this interplay, we generated a single-cell atlas of immune, glial …