Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Antidepressive Therapy: Shocking Relations by Peter Rotheneichner, Simona Lange, Anna O’Sullivan, Julia Marschallinger, Pia Zaunmair, Christian Geretsegger, Ludwig Aigner, Sebastien Couillard-Despres

“…Following application of electroconvulsive shocks, intricate interactions between neurogenesis, angiogenesis, and microglia activation, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the secretion of neurotrophic factors have been documented. …”
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Single-Cell Analyses Reveal Necroptosis’s Potential Role in Neuron Degeneration and Show Enhanced Neuron-Immune Cell Interaction in Parkinson’s Disease Progression by Xiaomei Zeng, Zhifen Han, Kehan Chen, Peng Zeng, Yidan Tang, Lijuan Li

“…Moreover, we carried out cell-cell interaction analyses between cell types and found that microglia (MG)’s interaction strength with glutamatergic neuron (GLU), GABAergic neuron (GABA), and dopaminergic neuron (DA) was significantly upregulated in PD. …”
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Inhibition of Cathepsin S Produces Neuroprotective Effects after Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice by Jianguo Xu, Handong Wang, Ke Ding, Xinyu Lu, Tao Li, Jiawei Wang, Chunxi Wang, Jian Wang

“…The increased expression was detected in microglia and neurons. Inhibition of CatS significantly reduced the level of TBI-induced inflammatory factors in brain tissue and alleviated brain edema. …”
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Cortistatin-14 Exerts Neuroprotective Effect Against Microglial Activation, Blood-brain Barrier Disruption, and Cognitive Impairment in Sepsis-associated Encephalopathy by Qiang Wen, Qian Ding, Jinchao Wang, Yanhua Yin, Shangchen Xu, Yuanrong Ju, Hongsheng Ji, Bin Liu

“…Immunofluorescence was used to examine the morphology and infiltration of microglia. A multiplex cytokine bead array assay was used to determine cytokine and chemokine levels in mouse serum and brain tissues. …”
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Distinct expression profile reveals glia involvement in the trigeminal system attributing to post-traumatic headache by Gurueswar Nagarajan, Yumin Zhang

“…Furthermore, immunohistochemical study revealed a close interaction between activated microglia and reactive astrocytes correlating with increased calretinin interneurons in the Sp5C. …”
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Adenosine A2A Receptors Modulate Acute Injury and Neuroinflammation in Brain Ischemia by Felicita Pedata, Anna Maria Pugliese, Elisabetta Coppi, Ilaria Dettori, Giovanna Maraula, Lucrezia Cellai, Alessia Melani

“…After ischemia the early massive increase of extracellular glutamate is followed by activation of resident immune cells, that is, microglia, and production or activation of inflammation mediators. …”
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Multi-organ frailty is enhanced by periodontitis-induced inflammaging by Yoshitaka Kase, Satoru Morikawa, Yuji Okano, Tatsuya Hosoi, Takazumi Yasui, Yoko Taki-Miyashita, Mitsutaka Yakabe, Maraku Goto, Kazuyuki Ishihara, Sumito Ogawa, Taneaki Nakagawa, Hideyuki Okano

“…Cognitive function assessment revealed increased activated microglia and decreased adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus, impairing spatial learning. …”
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Divergence in photoreceptor cell death and neuroinflammation in transvitreal and transscleral subretinal delivery in mice by Daniel E. Maidana, Sara Pastor Puente, Catherine Wang, Shivam Chandra, Lucia Gonzalez-Buendia, Eleftherios Paschalis Ilios, Andrius Kazlauskas, Demetrios G. Vavvas

“…Further leukocyte immunophenotyping indicated divergent infiltration patterns, with the TS approach exhibiting higher proportions of neutrophils and macrophages/microglia-like cells, while the TV injections had higher CD45hi CD11b + Ly6G- Ly6C + infiltration. …”
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Anxiety-like behavior and altered hippocampal activity in a transgenic mouse model of Fabry disease by Kai Kummer, Jeiny Luna Choconta, Marie-Luise Edenhofer, Archana Bajpai, Gopuraja Dharmalingam, Theodora Kalpachidou, David A. Collier, Michaela Kress

“…Hippocampus single-cell sequencing further revealed that Gb3 accumulation was associated with differential gene expression in neuronal and non-neuronal cell populations with granule, excitatory and interneurons, as well as microglia and endothelial cells as the main clusters with the most dysregulated genes. …”
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Infiltrating peripheral monocyte TREM-1 mediates dopaminergic neuron injury in substantia nigra of Parkinson’s disease model mice by Wei Song, Zi-ming Zhou, Le-le Zhang, Hai-feng Shu, Jin-ru Xia, Xia Qin, Rong Hua, Yong-mei Zhang

“…Abstract Neuroinflammation is a key factor in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Activated microglia in the central nervous system (CNS) and infiltration of peripheral immune cells contribute to dopaminergic neuron loss. …”
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CZYH Alleviates β-Amyloid-Induced Cognitive Impairment and Inflammation Response via Modulation of JNK and NF-κB Pathway in Rats by Yuanyuan Deng, Lianzhi Ye, Cheng Yu, Caixia Yin, Jingshan Shi, Qihai Gong

“…In addition, CZYH treatment markedly inhibited the activation of microglia as evidenced by a decreased level of IBA-1 and increased YM-1/2 protein expression. …”
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Distinct subcellular localization of tau and alpha-synuclein in lewy body disease by D. Luke Fischer, Marissa Menard, Omar Z. Abdelaziz, Nicholas M. Kanaan, Virginia G. Cobbs, Richard E. Kennedy, Geidy E. Serrano, Thomas G. Beach, Laura A. Volpicelli-Daley

“…Quantification of colocalization showed that MHCII and Iba1 colocalized, demonstrating activated immune cells are mostly microglia. However, p-α-syn rarely colocalized with p-tau or PAD-tau, although the overlap of p-α-syn with PAD-tau was significantly associated with LBD. …”
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Protective effects of apigenin in neurodegeneration: An update on the potential mechanisms by Ali Mohammadkhanizadeh, Mohammad Sheibani, Soroush Taherkhani, Davood Nourabadi, Seyed Mahdi Mohamadi-Zarch, Farnaz Nikbakht, Yaser Azizi

“…Moreover, apigenin has been demonstrated to suppress the activation of microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain, which are thought to contribute to neuroinflammation. …”
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Protein Kinase A Is Involved in Neuropathic Pain by Activating the p38MAPK Pathway to Mediate Spinal Cord Cell Apoptosis by Yajun Deng, Liang Yang, Qiqi Xie, Fengbiao Yang, Guoqiang Li, Guangzhi Zhang, Shaoping Li, Zuolong Wu, Jing Wang, Xuewen Kang

“…PKA colocalized with neurons, astrocytes, and microglia, and apoptotic cells were mainly neurons. …”
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Betaine Inhibits NLRP3 Inflammasome Hyperactivation and Regulates Microglial M1/M2 Phenotypic Differentiation, Thereby Attenuating Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Depression-Like Behavi... by Man Zhang, Xiao-Long Wang, Hui Shi, Lan-Qing Meng, Hong-Feng Quan, Lin Yan, Hui-Fang Yang, Xiao-Dong Peng

“…Our study suggests that betaine may promote the transition of microglia from the M1 to the M2 phenotype by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation, thereby attenuating lipopolysaccharide-induced depression-like behavior.…”
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Anti-Neuroinflammatory Effects of Prenylated Indole Alkaloids from the Antarctic Fungus <i>Aspergillus</i> sp. Strain SF-7367 by Zhiming Liu, Chi-Su Yoon, Thao Quyen Cao, Hwan Lee, Il-Chan Kim, Joung Han Yim, Jae Hak Sohn, Dong-Sung Lee, Hyuncheol Oh

“…Secondary metabolites of SF-7367 were isolated using high-performance liquid chromatography followed by validation of their anti-inflammatory effects in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated BV2 microglia and RAW264.7 macrophages. Chemical analysis of metabolites from the fungal strain revealed five known compounds: epideoxybrevianamide E (<b>1</b>), brevianamide V/W (<b>2</b>), brevianamide K (<b>3</b>), brevianamide Q (<b>4</b>), and brevianamide R (<b>5</b>). …”
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Adolescent mice exposed to TBI developed PD-like pathology in middle age by Rong Sha, Mingzhe Wu, Pengfei Wang, Ziyuan Chen, Wei Lei, Shimiao Wang, Shun Gong, Guobiao Liang, Rui Zhao, Yingqun Tao

“…The enhanced phagocytosis of reactive microglia accounted for the reduction of dendrite spines. …”
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Chitinase-3-like-1: a multifaceted player in neuroinflammation and degenerative pathologies with therapeutic implications by Pharaoh Fellow Mwale, Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Ting-Lin Yen, Jing-Shiun Jan, Rajeev Taliyan, Chih-Hao Yang, Wen-Bin Yang

“…As a key regulator of neuroinflammation, CHI3L1 modulates microglia and astrocyte activity, driving the release of proinflammatory cytokines that exacerbate disease progression. …”
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Scutellarin Attenuates Hypertension-Induced Expression of Brain Toll-Like Receptor 4/Nuclear Factor Kappa B by Xingyong Chen, Xiaogeng Shi, Xu Zhang, Huixin Lei, Simei Long, Huanxing Su, Zhong Pei, Ruxun Huang

“…Scutellarin significantly lowered blood pressure and attenuated the number of activated microglia and macrophages in brains of hypertensive rats. …”
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Antiallodynic Effects of Cannabinoid Receptor 2 (CB2R) Agonists on Retrovirus Infection-Induced Neuropathic Pain by Wen S. Sheng, Priyanka Chauhan, Shuxian Hu, Sujata Prasad, James R. Lokensgard

“…Activation of JAK/STAT3 has been shown to contribute to development of neuropathic pain in the LSC and pretreatment of primary murine microglia (2 h) with JWH015-, JWH133-, or Gp1a-blocked IFN-gamma-induced phosphorylation of STAT1 and STAT3. …”
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