Microglial Activation Alters Chromatin Accessibility of AD‐Associated Transcription Factors

Zena K Chatila, Jason Mares, Badri N Vardarajan, Wassim Elyaman, Vilas Menon, Elizabeth M Bradshaw · 2025

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Brain immune cell waking and gene access shifts in Alzheimer disease are studied by Zena K. Chatila and co-authors in work dated 2025. Microglia, the brain's own immune cells, can be re-set by a first hit so later hits land in a new way. That re-set is called innate immune memory. The team grew a microglia-like cell model and hit it with a range of wakes, then let it rest a week.

Three wakes left last gene-access marks: two germ part types and one virus. Marks sat at spots for Alzheimer-linked gene switches. The marks also matched gene maps from real Alzheimer brains. Such prints may drive long cell faults.

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CREATORZena K Chatila, Jason Mares, Badri N Vardarajan, Wassim Elyaman, Vilas Menon, Elizabeth M Bradshaw
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11709691

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