ReviewBrain, behavior, and immunity2017
Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease: Lessons learned from microglia-depletion models.
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186 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 362 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Lymphoid-like Suppressive Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease: A New Neuroimmune Regulatory Axis?Cells · 2026Review
- Neuroprotective effects ofBiomedical reports · 2026Article
- The evolving landscape of amyloid-targeting therapies in Alzheimer's disease: progress and challenges.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
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- Utilizing nanotechnology to diagnose and treat central nervous system disorders.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- Therapeutic Potential of Naive Hair Follicle Stem Cells in Alzheimer's Disease: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Neuroprotection and Neurogenesis.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Article
- Microglial activity during postnatal development is required for infantile amnesia in mice.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Microglial interferon signaling and Aβ plaque pathology are enhanced in female 5xFAD Alzheimer's disease mice, independent of estrous cycle stage.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2025Article
- Leveraging targeted kinase degradation as a novel therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- DDT exposure induces microglial activation and disease-associated microglial signatures: Relevance to mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease.Neurotoxicology · 2025Article
- Myeloperoxidase as a therapeutic target for oxidative damage in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Single nucleus RNA sequencing unveils relationship between microglia and endothelial cells in mixed Alzheimer's disease and vascular pathology.Neurobiology of disease · 2025Article
- Microglial plasticity across development mediates infantile amnesia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Impaired Synaptic Plasticity Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease.Metabolic brain disease · 2025Review
- Unraveling the Bone-Brain Communication Network.Biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Microglia are the primary immune cell of the brain and function to protect the central nervous system (CNS) from injury and invading pathogens. In the homeostatic brain, microglia serve to support neuronal health through synaptic pruning, promoting normal brain connectivity and development, and through release of neurotrophic factors, providing support for CNS integrity. However, recent evidence indicates that the homeostatic functioning of these cells is lost in neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), ultimately contributing to a chronic neuroinflammatory environment in the brain. Importantly, the development of compounds and genetic models to ablate the microglial compartment has emerged as effective tools to further our understanding of microglial function in AD. Use of these models has identified roles of microglia in several pathological facets of AD, including tau propagation, synaptic stripping, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline. Although culminating evidence utilizing these microglial ablation models reports an absence of CNS-endogenous and peripheral myeloid cell involvement in Aβ phagocytosis, recent data indicates that targeting microglia-evoked neuroinflammation in AD may be essential for potential therapeutics. Therefore, identifying altered signaling pathways in the microglia-devoid brain may assist with the development of effective inflammation-based therapies in AD.
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