The association between inflammatory markers in blood and cerebrospinal fluid: a systematic review and meta-analysis

FAJ Gigase, E Smith, B Collins, K Moore… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Neuroinflammatory processes have been hypothesized to play a role in the
pathogenesis of psychiatric and neurological diseases. Studies on this topic often rely on …

Pericyte loss in diseases

P Li, H Fan - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pericytes are specialized cells located in close proximity to endothelial cells within the
microvasculature. They play a crucial role in regulating blood flow, stabilizing vessel walls …

Integrative transcriptomic analysis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord implicates glial activation and suggests new risk genes

J Humphrey, S Venkatesh, R Hasan, JT Herb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively fatal neurodegenerative disease
affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In this study, we investigated gene …

The choroid plexus synergizes with immune cells during neuroinflammation

H Xu, P Lotfy, S Gelb, A Pragana, C Hehnly, LIJ Byer… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The choroid plexus (ChP) is a vital brain barrier and source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
Here, we use longitudinal two-photon imaging in awake mice and single-cell transcriptomics …

Choroid plexus pathophysiology

Y Courtney, A Hochstetler… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review examines the crucial roles of the choroid plexus (ChP) in central nervous system
(CNS) pathology, emphasizing its involvement in disease mechanisms and therapeutic …

Molecular subtypes of ALS are associated with differences in patient prognosis

J Eshima, SA O'Connor, E Marschall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease with poorly
understood clinical heterogeneity, underscored by significant differences in patient age at …

Proteomics and mathematical modeling of longitudinal CSF differentiates fast versus slow ALS progression

L Vu, K Garcia‐Mansfield, A Pompeiano… - Annals of clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous disease with a complex
etiology that lacks biomarkers predicting disease progression. The objective of this study …

The role of neutrophils in the dysfunction of central nervous system barriers

B Santos-Lima, EC Pietronigro, E Terrabuio… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Leukocyte migration into the central nervous system (CNS) represents a central process in
the development of neurological diseases with a detrimental inflammatory component …

Choroid plexus in Alzheimer's disease—the current state of knowledge

T Gião, T Teixeira, MR Almeida, I Cardoso - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The choroid plexus (CP), located in each of the four ventricles of the brain, is formed by a
monolayer of epithelial cells that surrounds a highly vascularized connective tissue with …

Chronic social defeat alters brain vascular-associated cell gene expression patterns leading to vascular dysfunction and immune system activation

JD Samuels, ML Lotstein, ML Lehmann… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Brain vascular integrity is critical for brain health, and its disruption is implicated in many
brain pathologies, including psychiatric disorders. Brain-vascular barriers are a complex …