Microglia and neuroinflammation: crucial pathological mechanisms in traumatic brain injury-induced neurodegeneration

F Shao, X Wang, H Wu, Q Wu, J Zhang - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common diseases in the central nervous
system (CNS) with high mortality and morbidity. Patients with TBI usually suffer many …

Novel therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer's disease: an updated review

TW Yu, HY Lane, CH Lin - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and accounts for
most cases of dementia. The prevalence of AD has increased in the current rapidly aging …

Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan

RM Brouwer, M Klein, KL Grasby, HG Schnack… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human brain structure changes throughout the lifespan. Altered brain growth or rates of
decline are implicated in a vast range of psychiatric, developmental and neurodegenerative …

Metabolic dysregulation contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease

X Yan, Y Hu, B Wang, S Wang, X Zhang - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease. Numerous studies
have demonstrated a critical role for dysregulated glucose metabolism in its pathogenesis …

Phospholipids of APOE lipoproteins activate microglia in an isoform-specific manner in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease

NF Fitz, KN Nam, CM Wolfe, F Letronne… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
APOE and Trem2 are major genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but how they
affect microglia response to Aβ remains unclear. Here we report an APOE isoform-specific …

Linking the amyloid, tau, and mitochondrial hypotheses of Alzheimer's disease and identifying promising drug targets

Z Fišar - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Damage or loss of brain cells and impaired neurochemistry, neurogenesis, and synaptic and
nonsynaptic plasticity of the brain lead to dementia in neurodegenerative diseases, such as …

Inhibition of colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R) as a potential therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases: opportunities and challenges

J Han, V Chitu, ER Stanley, ZK Wszolek… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Microglia are specialized dynamic immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that
plays a crucial role in brain homeostasis and in disease states. Persistent …

Cholinergic modulation of glial function during aging and chronic neuroinflammation

R Gamage, I Wagnon, I Rossetti, R Childs… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aging is a complex biological process that increases the risk of age-related cognitive
degenerative diseases such as dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Lewy Body …

[HTML][HTML] TREM2 ectodomain and its soluble form in Alzheimer's disease

J Yang, Z Fu, X Zhang, M Xiong, L Meng… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a receptor mainly expressed
on the surface of microglia. It mediates multiple pathophysiological processes in various …

Insulin resistance in peripheral tissues and the brain: a tale of two sites

EM Rhea, WA Banks, J Raber - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The concept of insulin resistance has been around since a few decades after the discovery
of insulin itself. To allude to the classic Charles Dicken's novel published 62 years before the …