[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." …

APOE in the bullseye of neurodegenerative diseases: impact of the APOE genotype in Alzheimer's disease pathology and brain diseases

R Fernández-Calle, SC Konings… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
ApoE is the major lipid and cholesterol carrier in the CNS. There are three major human
polymorphisms, apoE2, apoE3, and apoE4, and the genetic expression of APOE4 is one of …

Conservation and divergence of cortical cell organization in human and mouse revealed by MERFISH

R Fang, C Xia, JL Close, M Zhang, J He, Z Huang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human cerebral cortex has tremendous cellular diversity. How different cell types are
organized in the human cortex and how cellular organization varies across species remain …

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 …

Microglia phenotypes in aging and neurodegenerative diseases

MY Wendimu, SB Hooks - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) and plays a
fundamental role in mediating the onset and progression of disease. Microglia, which …

A spinal microglia population involved in remitting and relapsing neuropathic pain

K Kohno, R Shirasaka, K Yoshihara, S Mikuriya… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Neuropathic pain is often caused by injury and diseases that affect the somatosensory
system. Although pain development has been well studied, pain recovery mechanisms …

Overview of general and discriminating markers of differential microglia phenotypes

AM Jurga, M Paleczna, KZ Kuter - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Inflammatory processes and microglia activation accompany most of the pathophysiological
diseases in the central nervous system. It is proven that glial pathology precedes and even …

Remyelination in multiple sclerosis: from basic science to clinical translation

C Lubetzki, B Zalc, A Williams, C Stadelmann… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The treatment of multiple sclerosis has been transformed by the successful development of
immunotherapies that efficiently reduce disease activity and related clinical relapses during …

Microglial regional heterogeneity and its role in the brain

YL Tan, Y Yuan, L Tian - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Microglia have been recently shown to manifest a very interesting phenotypical
heterogeneity across different regions in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) …

Microglia: agents of the CNS pro-inflammatory response

JA Rodríguez-Gómez, E Kavanagh… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The pro-inflammatory immune response driven by microglia is a key contributor to the
pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. Though the research of microglia …