ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021
Does Soluble TREM2 Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease?
Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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- Soluble TREM2 Mediates Blood Brain Barrier Permeability through Astrocyte Reactivity.Research square · 2026Article
- Soluble TREM2 engages cell-surface nucleolin to drive vascular permeability and malignant ascites in ovarian cancer.EMBO molecular medicine · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of increased Alzheimer's disease pathology with R47H and R62H TREM2 variants.Acta neuropathologica · 2026Article
- Microglial phagocytosis in Alzheimer disease.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2026Review
- The Role of TREM2 After Stroke: From Mechanisms to Therapeutic Potential.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Alzheimer's Disease Risk Variants Interact with Amyloid-Beta to Modulate Monocyte Function.Cells · 2025Article
- Inhibition of Acyl-CoenzymeA: Cholesterol Acyltransferase 1 promotes shedding of soluble triggering receptor on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) and low-density lipoprotein receptor 1 (LRP1)-dependent phagocytosis of amyloid beta protein in microglia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- The flexible stalk domain of sTREM2 modulates its interactions with brain-based phospholipids.eLife · 2025Article
- Cell-specific copper dyshomeostasis mechanism in Alzheimer's disease.Translational neurodegeneration · 2025Review
- Systemic inflammation as a central player in the initiation and development of Alzheimer's disease.Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2025Review
- Multi-target approach to Alzheimer's disease prevention and treatment: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and amyloid- modulating mechanisms.Neurogenetics · 2025Review
- The impact of rare genetic variants on Alzheimer disease.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Immune mechanisms and shared immune targets in neurodegenerative diseases.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Sexual dimorphisms in innate immune activation markers in predementia Alzheimer's disease.Brain communications · 2025Article
- A Computational Approach in the Systematic Search of the Interaction Partners of Alternatively Spliced TREM2 Isoforms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The longitudinal trajectory of CSF sTREM2: the alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Article
- Hotspots and trends of microglia in Alzheimer's disease: a bibliometric analysis during 2000-2022.European journal of medical research · 2024Article
- A case for seeking sex-specific treatments in Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- More than microglia: myeloid cells and biomarkers in neurodegeneration.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- TREM2 is down-regulated by HSV1 in microglia and involved in antiviral defense in the brain.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
Triggering Receptor Expressed in Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) is a pattern recognition receptor on myeloid cells, and is upregulated on microglia surrounding amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Rare, heterozygous mutations in TREM2 (e.g., R47H) increase AD risk several fold. TREM2 can be cleaved at the plasma membrane by metalloproteases to release the ectodomain as soluble TREM2 (sTREM2). Wild-type sTREM2 binds oligomeric amyloid beta (Aβ) and acts as an extracellular chaperone, blocking and reversing Aβ oligomerization and fibrillization, and preventing Aβ-induced neuronal loss
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