Journal
GLIA
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 138-149Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/glia.23083
Keywords
microglia; zebrafish; RNA sequencing; transcriptome; neuronal cell death; proliferation
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- ZonMW [016.136.150]
- Marie Curie Career Integration [322368]
- Alzheimer Nederland fellowship [WE.15-2012-01]
- UMCG Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN)
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Microglia are brain resident macrophages important for brain development, connectivity, homeostasis and disease. However, it is still largely unclear how microglia functions and their identity are regulated at the molecular level. Although recent transcriptomic studies have identified genes specifically expressed in microglia, the function of most of these genes in microglia is still unknown. Here, we performed RNA sequencing on microglia acutely isolated from healthy and neurodegenerative zebrafish brains. We found that a large fraction of the mouse microglial signature is conserved in the zebrafish, corroborating the use of zebrafish to help understand microglial genetics in mammals in addition to studying basic microglia biology. Second, our transcriptome analysis of microglia following neuronal ablation suggested primarily a proliferative response of microglia, which we confirmed by immunohistochemistry and in vivo imaging. Together with the recent improvements in genome editing technology in zebrafish, these data offer opportunities to facilitate functional genetic research on microglia in vivo in the healthy as well as in the diseased brain.
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