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What Do Microglia Really Do in Healthy Adult Brain?
Review in Cells, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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85 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 143 citations in OpenAlex.
- RANK/RANKL/OPG Signaling in the Brain: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Pooled it
- Phase 1, First-In-Human, Single-/Multiple-Ascending Dose Study of Iluzanebart in Healthy Volunteers.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2025Trial
- From Cognitive Impairment to Uremic Encephalopathy in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Proposed Pathophysiological Continuum.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Long-read transcriptomics of purified human cortical cell types exposes glial isoform complexity and disease-relevant transcript architecture.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Microglia Rank signaling regulates GnRH neuronal function and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Aging Inhibits Emergency Angiogenesis and Exacerbates Neuronal Damage by Downregulating DARS2.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Article
- Cerebral Neurodegeneration and Cognitive Impairment in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis: the Role of Neuroglia and Associated Factors (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2026Review
- Mathematical Modeling of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology · 2025Review
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- Microglia-astrocyte crosstalk following ischemic stroke.Molecular brain · 2025Review
- Diversity, Functional Complexity, and Translational Potential of Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Layer-Specific Colocalization of Microglia with Amyloid Plaques in the Middle Temporal Gyrus Predicts Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease.Aging and disease · 2025Article
- Evaluation of altered cell-cell communication between glia and neurons in the hippocampus of 3xTg-AD mice at two time points.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2025Article
- Food for thought: probiotic modulation of microglial activity in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025Review
- Immune Alterations in the Intrauterine Environment Shape Offspring Brain Development in a Sex-Specific Manner.Biological psychiatry · 2025Review
- Neurodegenerative diseases and neuroinflammation-induced apoptosis.Open life sciences · 2025Review
- Neuron-Glial Interactions: Implications for Plasticity, Behavior, and Cognition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Microglial priming by IFN-γ involves STAT1-mediated activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Evaluation of altered cell-cell communication between glia and neurons in the hippocampus of 3xTg-AD mice at two time points.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Beneficial Effect of Dimethyl Fumarate Drug Repositioning in a Mouse Model of TDP-43-Dependent Frontotemporal Dementia.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Microglia originate from yolk sac-primitive macrophages and auto-proliferate into adulthood without replacement by bone marrow-derived circulating cells. In inflammation, stroke, aging, or infection, microglia have been shown to contribute to brain pathology in both deleterious and beneficial ways, which have been studied extensively. However, less is known about their role in the healthy adult brain. Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes are widely accepted to strongly contribute to the maintenance of brain homeostasis and to modulate neuronal function. On the other hand, contribution of microglia to cognition and behavior is only beginning to be understood. The ability to probe their function has become possible using microglial depletion assays and conditional mutants. Studies have shown that the absence of microglia results in cognitive and learning deficits in rodents during development, but this effect is less pronounced in adults. However, evidence suggests that microglia play a role in cognition and learning in adulthood and, at a cellular level, may modulate adult neurogenesis. This review presents the case for repositioning microglia as key contributors to the maintenance of homeostasis and cognitive processes in the healthy adult brain, in addition to their classical role as sentinels coordinating the neuroinflammatory response to tissue damage and disease.
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