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ReviewThe Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry2023

Microglial TREM2 at the Intersection of Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.

Wenhui Qu, Ling Li

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Review in The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. TREM2Frontiers in immunology · 2025
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  14. The Critical Role of Autophagy and Phagocytosis in the Aging Brain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wenhui QuGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Ling LiGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9245-7387
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

HDL Mimetic Peptide-Mediated Enhancement of Neurovascular Function to Mitigate Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG058081 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LI, LING · 2018 to 2018
$1.9M
Dysregulation of Protein Prenylation in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG056976 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI DISTEFANO, MARK D, LI, LING · 2017 to 2017
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG056976NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG058081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As resident immune cells of the brain, microglia serve pivotal roles in regulating neuronal function under both physiological and pathological conditions, including aging and the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer's disease (AD). Instructed by neurons, microglia regulate synaptic function and guard brain homeostasis throughout life. Dysregulation of microglial function, however, can lead to dire consequences, including aggravated cognitive decline during aging and exacerbated neuropathology in diseases. The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) is a key regulator of microglial function. Loss-of-function variants of TREM2 are associated with an increased risk of AD. TREM2 orchestrates the switch of microglial transcriptome programming that modulates microglial chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and inflammatory responses, as well as microglial regulation of synaptic function in health and disease. Intriguingly, the outcome of microglial/TREM2 function is influenced by age and the context of neuropathology. This review summarizes the rapidly growing research on TREM2 under physiological conditions and in AD, particularly highlighting the impact of TREM2 on neuronal function.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseBrainMembrane GlycoproteinsReceptors, ImmunologicHumansMicrogliaPhagocytosisMembrane GlycoproteinsReceptors, ImmunologicTREM2 protein, humanagingAlzheimer’s diseasecognitive functionmicrogliasynaptic plasticityTREM2

Identifiers

PMID34470515
PMCPMC10810316
OpenAlexW3198537296

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