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 in neurological diseases: a road map to brain-disease dependent-inflammatory response

S Bachiller, I Jiménez-Ferrer, A Paulus… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia represent a specialized population of macrophages-like cells in the central
nervous system (CNS) considered immune sentinels that are capable of orchestrating a …

Bidirectional microglia–neuron communication in health and disease

Z Szepesi, O Manouchehrian, S Bachiller… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are ramified cells that exhibit highly motile processes, which continuously survey
the brain parenchyma and react to any insult to the CNS homeostasis. Although microglia …

Plasticity of microglia

M Augusto‐Oliveira, GP Arrifano, CI Delage… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microglial cells are the scions of foetal macrophages which invade the neural tube early
during embryogenesis. The nervous tissue environment instigates the phenotypic …

Neuron–glia crosstalk in health and disease: fractalkine and CX3CR1 take centre stage

GK Sheridan, KJ Murphy - Open biology, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An essential aspect of normal brain function is the bidirectional interaction and
communication between neurons and neighbouring glial cells. To this end, the brain has …

Fractalkine regulation of microglial physiology and consequences on the brain and behavior

RC Paolicelli, K Bisht, MÈ Tremblay - Frontiers in cellular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neural circuits are constantly monitored and supported by the surrounding microglial cells,
using finely tuned mechanisms which include both direct contact and release of soluble …

Microglia, seen from the CX3CR1 angle

Y Wolf, S Yona, KW Kim, S Jung - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Microglial cells in brain and spinal cord are characterized by high expression of the
chemokine receptor CX3CR1. Expression of the sole CX3CR1 ligand, the membrane …

Function and dysfunction of microglia during brain development: consequences for synapses and neural circuits

RC Paolicelli, MT Ferretti - Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Many diverse factors, ranging from stress to infections, can perturb brain homeostasis and
alter the physiological activity of microglia, the immune cells of the central nervous system …

In vivo structure/function and expression analysis of the CX3C chemokine fractalkine

KW Kim, A Vallon-Eberhard, E Zigmond… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
The CX3C chemokine family is composed of only one member, CX3CL1, also known as
fractalkine, which in mice is the sole ligand of the G protein-coupled, 7-transmembrane …

The role of glia in the spinal cord in neuropathic and inflammatory pain

EA Old, AK Clark, M Malcangio - Pain control, 2015 - Springer
Chronic pain, both inflammatory and neuropathic, is a debilitating condition in which the
pain experience persists after the painful stimulus has resolved. The efficacy of current …