ReviewDevelopmental neurobiology2021
Understanding microglial diversity and implications for neuronal function in health and disease.
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- Gut-derived small extracellular vesicles support trained innate immune tolerance in murine microglial cells.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
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- Transcriptional profiling in microglia across physiological and pathological states identifies a transcriptional module associated with neurodegeneration.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Microglial over-pruning of synapses during development in autism-associated SCN2A-deficient mice and human cerebral organoids.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Article
- Single-nucleus analysis reveals microenvironment-specific neuron and glial cell enrichment in Alzheimer's disease.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Microglia-synapse engulfment via PtdSer-TREM2 ameliorates neuronal hyperactivity in Alzheimer's disease models.The EMBO journal · 2023Article
- Updated Understanding of the Glial-Vascular Unit in Central Nervous System Disorders.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Review
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- APOE in the bullseye of neurodegenerative diseases: impact of the APOE genotype in Alzheimer's disease pathology and brain diseases.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2022Review
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Abstract
Genetic data implicate microglia as central players in brain health and disease, urging the need to better understand what microglia do in the brain. Microglia are critical partners in neuronal wiring and function during development and disease. Emerging literature suggests that microglia have diverse functional roles, raising the intriguing question of which functions of microglia become impaired in disease to undermine proper neuronal function. It is also becoming increasingly clear that microglia exist in heterogeneous cell states. Microglial cell states appear context-dependent, that is, age, sex, location, and health of their microenvironment; these are further influenced by external signaling factors including gut microbiota and lipid metabolites. These data altogether suggest that microglia exist in functional clusters that impact, and are impacted by, surrounding neuronal microenvironment. However, we still lack understanding of how we can translate microglia cell states into function. Here, we summarize the state-of-the-art on the diverse functions of microglia in relation to neuronal health. Then, we discuss heterogeneity during developing, healthy adult and diseased brains, and whether this may be predetermined by origin and/or regulated by local milieu. Finally, we propose that it is critical to gain high-resolution functional discernment into microglia-neuron interactions while preserving the spatial architecture of the tissue. Such insight will reveal specific targets for biomarker and therapeutic development toward microglia-neuron crosstalk in disease.
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