Mancuso, Renzo

Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

Paolicelli, R. C., Sierra, A., Stevens, B., Tremblay, M.-E., Aguzzi, A., Ajami, B., Amit, I., Audinat, E., Bechmann, I., Bennett, M., et al. (2022) · Neuron

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsNeurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

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Spatial Transcriptomics and In Situ Sequencing to Study Alzheimer’s Disease

Chen, W.-T., Lu, A., Craessaerts, K., Pavie, B., Sala Frigerio, C., Corthout, N., Qian, X., Laláková, J., Kühnemund, M., Voytyuk, I., et al. (2020) · Cell

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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The Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: Age, Sex, and Genes Modulate the Microglia Response to Aβ Plaques

Sala Frigerio, C., Wolfs, L., Fattorelli, N., Thrupp, N., Voytyuk, I., Schmidt, I., Mancuso, R., Chen, W.-T., Woodbury, M. E., Srivastava, G., et al. (2019) · Cell Reports

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease

Heneka, M. T., van der Flier, W. M., Jessen, F., Hoozemanns, J., Thal, D. R., Boche, D., Brosseron, F., Teunissen, C., Zetterberg, H., Jacobs, A. H., et al. (2025) · Nature Reviews Immunology

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Pharmacological targeting of CSF1R inhibits microglial proliferation and prevents the progression of Alzheimer’s-like pathology

Olmos-Alonso, A., Schetters, S. T. T., Sri, S., Askew, K., Mancuso, R., Vargas-Caballero, M., Holscher, C., Perry, V. H., & Gomez-Nicola, D. (2016) · Brain

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Microglia Require CD4 T Cells to Complete the Fetal-to-Adult Transition

Pasciuto, E., Burton, O. T., Roca, C. P., Lagou, V., Rajan, W. D., Theys, T., Mancuso, R., Tito, R. Y., Kouser, L., Callaerts-Vegh, Z., et al. (2020) · Cell

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsT-cell and B-cell Immunology

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Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Is Not Suitable for Detection of Microglial Activation Genes in Humans

Thrupp, N., Sala Frigerio, C., Wolfs, L., Skene, N. G., Fattorelli, N., Poovathingal, S., Fourne, Y., Matthews, P. M., Theys, T., Mancuso, R., et al. (2020) · Cell Reports

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

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Stem-cell-derived human microglia transplanted in mouse brain to study human disease

Mancuso, R., Van Den Daele, J., Fattorelli, N., Wolfs, L., Balusu, S., Burton, O., Liston, A., Sierksma, A., Fourne, Y., Poovathingal, S., et al. (2019) · Nature Neuroscience

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Novel Alzheimer risk genes determine the microglia response to amyloid-β but not to TAU pathology

Sierksma, A., Lu, A., Mancuso, R., Fattorelli, N., Thrupp, N., Salta, E., Zoco, J., Blum, D., Buée, L., De Strooper, B., et al. (2020) · EMBO Molecular Medicine

Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

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A multi-pronged human microglia response to Alzheimer’s disease Aβ pathology

Mancuso, R., Fattorelli, N., Martinez-Muriana, A., Davis, E., Wolfs, L., Van Den Daele, J., Geric, I., Preman, P., Serneels, L., Poovathingal, S., et al. (2022) · Nature Neuroscience

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration

Fumagalli, L., Nazlie Mohebiany, A., Premereur, J., Polanco Miquel, P., Bijnens, B., Van de Walle, P., Fattorelli, N., & Mancuso, R. (2025) · Nature Neuroscience

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics

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APOE from astrocytes restores Alzheimer’s Aβ-pathology and DAM-like responses in APOE deficient microglia

Preman, P., Moechars, D., Fertan, E., Wolfs, L., Serneels, L., Shah, D., Lamote, J., Poovathingal, S., Snellinx, A., Mancuso, R., et al. (2024) · EMBO Molecular Medicine

Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

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Early microgliosis precedes neuronal loss and behavioural impairment in mice with a frontotemporal dementia-causing CHMP2B mutation

Clayton, E. L., Mancuso, R., Nielsen, T. T., Mizielinska, S., Holmes, H., Powell, N., Norona, F., Overgaard Larsen, J., Milioto, C., Wilson, K. M., et al. (2017) · Human Molecular Genetics

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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The APOE isoforms differentially shape the transcriptomic and epigenomic landscapes of human microglia xenografted into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Murphy, K. B., Hu, D., Wolfs, L., Rohde, S. K., Fauró, G. L., Geric, I., Mancuso, R., De Strooper, B., & Marzi, S. J. (2025) · Nature Communications

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsAlzheimer's disease research and treatments

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Pharmacological modulation of TSPO in microglia/macrophages and neurons in a chronic neurodegenerative model of prion disease

Vicente-Rodríguez, M., Mancuso, R., Peris-Yague, A., Simmons, C., NIMA Consortium, Wlazly, D., Dickinson, A., Foster, A., Knight, C., Leckey, C., et al. (2023) · Journal of Neuroinflammation

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsPrion Diseases and Protein Misfolding

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