Microglial metabolism is a pivotal factor in sexual dimorphism in Alzheimer's disease

MV Guillot-Sestier, AR Araiz, V Mela, AS Gaban… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Age and sex are major risk factors in Alzheimer's disease (AD) with a higher incidence of the
disease in females. Neuroinflammation, which is a hallmark of AD, contributes to disease …

Sex-specific effects of microglial activation on Alzheimer's disease proteinopathy in older adults

KB Casaletto, E Nichols, V Aslanyan, SM Simone… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Females show a disproportionate burden of Alzheimer's disease pathology and higher
Alzheimer's disease dementia prevalences compared to males, yet the mechanisms driving …

Exploring sex-related differences in microglia may be a game-changer in precision medicine

MA Lynch - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
One area of microglial biology that has been relatively neglected until recently is sex
differences and this is in spite of the fact that sex is a risk factor in several diseases that are …

Glial activation is moderated by sex in response to amyloidosis but not to tau pathology in mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases

G Biechele, N Franzmeier, T Blume, M Ewers… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background In vivo assessment of neuroinflammation by 18-kDa translocator protein
positron-emission-tomography (TSPO-PET) ligands receives growing interest in preclinical …

Sex dimorphism profile of Alzheimer's disease-type pathologies in an APP/PS1 mouse model

SS Jiao, XL Bu, YH Liu, C Zhu, QH Wang, LL Shen… - Neurotoxicity …, 2016 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among the elderly,
characterized by parenchymal and vascular beta-amyloid (Aβ) burden, tau pathology …

Aging and sex: Impact on microglia phagocytosis

N Yanguas‐Casás, A Crespo‐Castrillo… - Aging …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia dysfunction and activation are important hallmarks of the aging brain and are
concomitant with age‐related neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Age‐associated …

Mechanisms of sex differences in Alzheimer's disease

C Lopez-Lee, ERS Torres, G Carling, L Gan - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the mechanisms underlying its etiology and progression are
complex and multifactorial. The higher AD risk in women may serve as a clue to better …

Sex-dependent autosomal effects on clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease

CC Fan, SJ Banks, WK Thompson, CH Chen… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sex differences in the manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are under intense investigation.
Despite the emerging importance of polygenic predictions for Alzheimer's disease, sex …

Sex differences in metabolic aging of the brain: insights into female susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease

L Zhao, Z Mao, SK Woody, RD Brinton - Neurobiology of aging, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite recent advances in the understanding of clinical aspects of sex differences in
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the underlying mechanisms, for instance, how sex modifies AD …

Do microglial sex differences contribute to sex differences in neurodegenerative diseases?

L Kodama, L Gan - Trends in molecular medicine, 2019 - cell.com
Sex differences have been clinically documented in numerous neurodegenerative diseases
and yet the reasons for these differences are not well understood. Recent studies have …