Heterogenous microglial reactivity contrasts with stable vascular transcriptional programs in mouse models of Alzheimer's, CADASIL, and Traumatic Brain InjuryKarolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden..
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Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Vascular Biology.
Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden..
Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden..
Karolinska Inst, Dept Clin Neurosci, Stockholm, Sweden.;Karolinska Univ Hosp, Med Unit Neurosurg, Stockholm, Sweden..
Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden..
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Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden.;Inst Basic Med Sci, Dept Anat, Oslo, Norway..
Karolinska Inst, Dept Cell & Mol Biol, Stockholm, Sweden..
Karolinska Inst, Dept Neurobiol Care Sci & Soc, Stockholm, Sweden..
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2026 (English)In: Nature Communications, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 17, no 1, article id 6392Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The extent to which the cerebrovasculature is affected in various brain disorders is still not well understood. To address this, we established a transcriptomic repository of major vascular cell types and microglia to compare the global transcriptomic response in mouse models of three human brain disorders linked to neuroinflammation and associated vascular reactivity: Alzheimer's disease (AD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL). Single-cell analysis of >250,000 cells at different disease stages led to identification of two previously unknown vascular cell subtypes, expanded the endothelial zonation spectrum and allowed for a detailed analysis of the cellular and molecular responses. Surprisingly, most vascular cell types lacked major transcriptomic changes across the three conditions, while microglia exhibited significant, disease-specific transcriptional changes. Notably, microglial responses converged between late-stage TBI and AD, offering insights into the predisposition for neurodegeneration following TBI.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2026. Vol. 17, no 1, article id 6392
National Category
Neurosciences Cell and Molecular Biology Neurology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-594785DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-75367-0ISI: 001824109900001PubMedID: 42463666Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105044935061OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-594785DiVA, id: diva2:2090276
Part of project
Engineered antibodies for positron emission tomography imaging of neuroinflammation, Swedish Research Council
Note
These authors jointly supervised this work: Lendahl U, Karlström H, Thelin E P, Nilsson P, Vanlandewijck M.
2026-08-062026-08-062026-08-06Bibliographically approved