ReviewActa neuropathologica2022
White matter microglia heterogeneity in the CNS.
Review in Acta neuropathologica, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.
- Multimodal microglial and kynurenine pathway alterations across the affective-psychosis spectrum: a systematic review of patterns, heterogeneity, and dimensional implications.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Beyond the Wiring: White Matter as a Dynamic Regulator of Brain Function and Disease.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Review
- From Xenobiotic Exposure to Neuroinflammation: Mechanisms Linking Lipopolysaccharide Signaling to Depressive-like Behavior.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Review
- Human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells ameliorate vascular dementia by modulating microglial myelin debris handling and white matter injury.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- Traumatic Microhemorrhages Are Not Synonymous With Axonal Injury.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2026Article
- Acidosis, Iron Dyshomeostasis and Inflammatory Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Inhibition of SLC11A1-Mediated Lysosomal Iron Accumulation in Microglia Promotes Repair Following White Matter Stroke.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Cholinergic regulation of neuroinflammation: linking microglia, immunometabolism, and neuromodulation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- FoxO1, together with Notch1, promotes microglial activation to induce pathological changes in the retinal vasculature under hypoxia.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025Article
- GSDME-mediated pyroptosis in microglia exacerbates demyelination and neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis: insights from humans and cuprizone-induced demyelination model mice.Cell death and differentiation · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture Protects Against Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment by Promoting an IL-33/ST2 Axis-Mediated Microglia M2 Polarization.Neurochemical research · 2025Article
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- White matter alterations in episodic migraine without aura patients assessed with diffusion MRI: effect of free water correction.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Microglia in the spinal cord stem cell niche regulate neural precursor cell proliferation via soluble CD40 in response to myelin basic protein.Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) · 2025Article
- Sex Dimorphism Influences Cortical Microglial Morphological and Phenotypic Marker Profile after Closed Head Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats.Neurotrauma reports · 2025Article
- Integrating large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing in central nervous system disease using self-supervised contrastive learning.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Microglia contribute to polyG-dependent neurodegeneration in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease.Acta neuropathologica · 2024Article
- Absence of Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) Prolongs the Presence of a CD11c+ Microglial Population during Postnatal Corpus Callosum Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Cystatin F attenuates neuroinflammation and demyelination following murine coronavirus infection of the central nervous system.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024Article
- Effect of General Anesthetic Agents on Microglia.Aging and disease · 2024Review
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Microglia, the resident myeloid cells in the central nervous system (CNS) play critical roles in shaping the brain during development, responding to invading pathogens, and clearing tissue debris or aberrant protein aggregations during ageing and neurodegeneration. The original concept that like macrophages, microglia are either damaging (pro-inflammatory) or regenerative (anti-inflammatory) has been updated to a kaleidoscope view of microglia phenotypes reflecting their wide-ranging roles in maintaining homeostasis in the CNS and, their contribution to CNS diseases, as well as aiding repair. The use of new technologies including single cell/nucleus RNA sequencing has led to the identification of many novel microglia states, allowing for a better understanding of their complexity and distinguishing regional variations in the CNS. This has also revealed differences between species and diseases, and between microglia and other myeloid cells in the CNS. However, most of the data on microglia heterogeneity have been generated on cells isolated from the cortex or whole brain, whereas white matter changes and differences between white and grey matter have been relatively understudied. Considering the importance of microglia in regulating white matter health, we provide a brief update on the current knowledge of microglia heterogeneity in the white matter, how microglia are important for the development of the CNS, and how microglial ageing affects CNS white matter homeostasis. We discuss how microglia are intricately linked to the classical white matter diseases such as multiple sclerosis and genetic white matter diseases, and their putative roles in neurodegenerative diseases in which white matter is also affected. Understanding the wide variety of microglial functions in the white matter may provide the basis for microglial targeted therapies for CNS diseases.
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