Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Sustained microglial depletion with CSF1R inhibitor impairs parenchymal plaque development in an Alzheimer’s disease model

  • Elizabeth Spangenberg,
  • Paul L. Severson,
  • Lindsay A. Hohsfield,
  • Joshua Crapser,
  • Jiazhong Zhang,
  • Elizabeth A. Burton,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Wayne Spevak,
  • Jack Lin,
  • Nicole Y. Phan,
  • Gaston Habets,
  • Andrey Rymar,
  • Garson Tsang,
  • Jason Walters,
  • Marika Nespi,
  • Parmveer Singh,
  • Stephanie Broome,
  • Prabha Ibrahim,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Gideon Bollag,
  • Brian L. West,
  • Kim N. Green

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11674-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Genetics implicate microglia in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis, but their roles remain unclear. Here, the authors find that microglial depletion in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease impairs plaque formation and that Aβ-induced changes in neuronal gene expression are microglia-mediated.