Trial reportJournal of neuropathology and experimental neurology2013
Differential relationships of reactive astrocytes and microglia to fibrillar amyloid deposits in Alzheimer disease.
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150 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 222 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of human post-mortem immunohistochemical studies and bioinformatics analyses unveil the complexity of astrocyte reaction in Alzheimer's disease.Neuropathology and applied neurobiology · 2022Pooled it
- Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Autoantibody to Aβ Levels in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: a Meta-Analysis Study.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2020Pooled it
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- Immunotherapy with B28, an antibody to Aβ oligomers, potently decreases amyloid plaques, microgliosis, and memory decline in APP knock-in mice.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Microglial mitochondria transfer to astrocytes via GPNMB-enriched extracellular vesicles alleviates cognitive deficits in tauopathy mice.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Targeting amyloid-β pathology by chimeric antigen receptor astrocyte (CAR-A) therapy.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- In vivo mapping of cortical amyloid beta-myelin coupling in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
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- Progressive changes in synapses and glial cells inBrain communications · 2026Article
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- Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic profiling of human temporal cortex and white matter reveals key associations with AD pathology.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Circ_0049472 downregulation relieves Amyloid-β-induced neuronal injury by modulating PDE4A expression via targeting miR-22-3p in Alzheimer's disease.Metabolic brain disease · 2025Article
- Neuronal Count, Brain Injury, and Sustained Cognitive Function in 5×FAD Alzheimer's Disease Mice Fed DHA-Enriched Diets.Biomolecules · 2025Article
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein in plasma and intraocular fluids and the correlation with cognitive function in patients with vitreoretinal disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Glial Cells in Alzheimer's Disease: Pathogenic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Frontiers.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2025Review
- The Role of Astrocytes in Synaptic Dysfunction and Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Mutations in PSEN1 predispose inflammation in an astrocyte model of familial Alzheimer's disease through disrupted regulated intramembrane proteolysis.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although it is clear that astrocytes and microglia cluster around dense-core amyloid plaques in Alzheimer disease (AD), whether they are primarily attracted to amyloid deposits or are just reacting to plaque-associated neuritic damage remains elusive. We postulate that astrocytes and microglia may differentially respond to fibrillar amyloid β. Therefore, we quantified the size distribution of dense-core thioflavin-S (ThioS)-positive plaques in the temporal neocortex of 40 AD patients and the microglial and astrocyte responses in their vicinity (≤50 μm) and performed correlations between both measures. As expected, both astrocytes and microglia were clearly spatially associated with ThioS-positive plaques (p = 0.0001, ≤50 μm vs. >50 μm from their edge), but their relationship to ThioS-positive plaque size differed: larger ThioS-positive plaques were associated with more surrounding activated microglia (p = 0.0026), but this effect was not observed with reactive astrocytes. Microglial response to dense-core plaques seems to be proportional to their size, which we postulate reflects a chemotactic effect of amyloid β. By contrast, plaque-associated astrocytic response does not correlate with plaque size and seems to parallel the behavior of plaque-associated neuritic damage.
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