MICROGLIA

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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about MICROGLIA: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.

Summary

Resident immune cells of the central nervous system. Microglia survey the brain parenchyma, clear debris, prune synapses, and respond to injury. In neurodegenerative diseases, chronic microglial activation drives neuroinflammation through complement cascade and cytokine release.

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graph TD
    subgraph Therapeutic["Therapeutic"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"expressed in"| TREM2["TREM2"]
        TREM2_3["TREM2"] -->|"expressed in"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
    end
    subgraph Pathology["Pathology"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| NEUROINFLAMMATION["NEUROINFLAMMATION"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| NEURON["NEURON"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| TNF["TNF"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| SNCA["SNCA"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| TAU["TAU"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| TREM2_1["TREM2"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"associated with"| NEURODEGENERATION["NEURODEGENERATION"]
        AMYLOID["AMYLOID"] -->|"associated with"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
        APOE["APOE"] -->|"associated with"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
    end
    subgraph Signaling["Signaling"]
        MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"] -->|"activates"| TREM2_2["TREM2"]
        INFLAMMATION["INFLAMMATION"] -->|"activates"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
        C1Q["C1Q"] -->|"activates"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
        TREM2_4["TREM2"] -->|"regulates"| MICROGLIA["MICROGLIA"]
    end
    style MICROGLIA fill:#006494,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:3px,color:#e0e0e0,font-weight:bold
    style TREM2 fill:#006494,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style NEUROINFLAMMATION fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style NEURON fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TNF fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style SNCA fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TAU fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TREM2_1 fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TREM2_2 fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style NEURODEGENERATION fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style INFLAMMATION fill:#5d4400,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TREM2_3 fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style C1Q fill:#006494,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style TREM2_4 fill:#006494,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style AMYLOID fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0
    style APOE fill:#4a1a6b,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:1px,color:#e0e0e0