Glial Cell Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Progress in Biomarker Research.
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in older adults and is increasingly recognized as a systems-level disease involving dynamic dysfunction and crosstalk among multiple glial cell populations. Microglia, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes play distinct but interconnected roles across the AD continuum. Microglia respond to amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau pathology by adopting disease-associated phenotypes that contribute to neuroinflammation, complement-dependent...