ArticleNature communications2025
Microglia modulate the cerebrovascular reactivity through ectonucleotidase CD39.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Heart failure-induced reprogramming of salt-evoked neurovascular coupling in the rat hypothalamus.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Neurovascular Signaling in the Perivascular Space: Biophysical Principles and Disruption in Hypertension.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2026Review
- Differential expression, activity, and fibroblast growth factor 2-mediated modulation of purine-metabolizing enzymes in cultured cortical astrocytes and microglia.Purinergic signalling · 2026Article
- Review
- Activity-dependent protein synthesis in neurons requires microglial-metabolic coupling.Cell metabolism · 2026Article
- Glioma-Associated Microglia Augment Neuronal Hyper-Excitability in Glioma.Brain tumor research and treatment · 2026Review
- Enhancing the specificity of microglia genetic targeting using a CSF1R inhibitor.Cell reports · 2026Article
- A single-cell multiomic analysis identifies molecular and gene-regulatory mechanisms dysregulated in developing Down syndrome neocortex.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Guanosine contributes to rapid purinergic regulation of dopamine during ischemia.Purinergic signalling · 2026Article
- Microglia Modulate Information Processing in the Mouse Barrel Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Capillary-Associated Microglia in Neurovascular Coupling: Localization, Mechanisms, and Disease Implications.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Review
- Vascular smooth muscle cell loss, but not neuroinflammation, drives cerebrovascular reactivity impairment in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Ecto-5'-nucleotidase/CD73 reduces COX-2 expression in activated macrophages.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Vascular smooth muscle cell loss, but not neuroinflammation, drives cerebrovascular reactivity impairment in Alzheimer's disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Article
- Adenosine in the Brain: Recent Progress on Detection, Function, and Translation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- CD39 and CD73: biological functions, diseases and therapy.Molecular biomedicine · 2025Review
- Neurovascular Coupling: Scientometric Analysis of 30 Years Research (1996-2025).Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the central nervous system: A potential therapeutic target to combat age-related vascular fragility.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025Review
- Microglia coordinate activity-dependent protein synthesis in neurons through metabolic coupling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
18 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Microglia and the border-associated macrophages contribute to the modulation of cerebral blood flow, but the mechanisms have remained uncertain. Here, we show that microglia regulate the cerebral blood flow baseline and the responses to whisker stimulation or intra-cisternal magna injection of adenosine triphosphate, but not intra-cisternal magna injection of adenosine in mice model. Notably, microglia repopulation corrects these cerebral blood flow anomalies. The microglial-dependent regulation of cerebral blood flow requires the adenosine triphosphate-sensing P2RY12 receptor and ectonucleotidase CD39 that initiates the dephosphorylation of extracellular adenosine triphosphate into adenosine in both male and female mice. Pharmacological inhibition or CX3CR1-CreER-mediated deletion of CD39 mimics the cerebral blood flow anomalies in microglia-deficient mice and reduces the upsurges of extracellular adenosine following whisker stimulation. Together, these results suggest that the microglial CD39-initiated breakdown of extracellular adenosine triphosphate co-transmitter is an important step in neurovascular coupling and the regulation of cerebrovascular reactivity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.