Astrocyte‐T cell crosstalk regulates region‐specific neuroinflammation

JL Williams, S Manivasagam, BC Smith, J Sim… - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
During multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the
central nervous system (CNS), symptoms, and outcomes are determined by the location of …

Astrocytes: key regulators of neuroinflammation

E Colombo, C Farina - Trends in immunology, 2016 - cell.com
Astrocytes are crucial regulators of innate and adaptive immune responses in the injured
central nervous system. Depending on timing and context, astrocyte activity may exacerbate …

Immune privilege as an intrinsic CNS property: astrocytes protect the CNS against T‐cell‐mediated neuroinflammation

U Gimsa, NA Mitchison… - Mediators of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes have many functions in the central nervous system (CNS). They support
differentiation and homeostasis of neurons and influence synaptic activity. They are …

Regional and functional heterogeneity of antigen presenting cells in the mouse brain and meninges

SJ Dando, R Kazanis, HR Chinnery, PG McMenamin - Glia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The central nervous system (CNS) is considered to be immune privileged, owing in part to
the absence of major histocompatibility (MHC) class II+ cells in the healthy brain …

Diverse inflammatory threats modulate astrocytes Ca2+ signaling via connexin43 hemichannels in organotypic spinal slices

G Panattoni, R Amoriello, C Memo, A Thalhammer… - Molecular brain, 2021 - Springer
Neuroinflammation is an escalation factor shared by a vast range of central nervous system
(CNS) pathologies, from neurodegenerative diseases to neuropsychiatric disorders. CNS …

Role of T cell—glial cell interactions in creating and amplifying central nervous system inflammation and multiple sclerosis disease symptoms

ES Huseby, D Kamimura, Y Arima… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS)
that causes the demyelination of nerve cells and destroys oligodendrocytes, neurons and …

Reactive astrocytes form scar-like perivascular barriers to leukocytes during adaptive immune inflammation of the CNS

RR Voskuhl, RS Peterson, B Song, Y Ao… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Factors that regulate leukocyte entry and spread through CNS parenchyma during different
types of CNS insults are incompletely understood. Reactive astrocytes have been implicated …

Astrocyte regulation of CNS inflammation and remyelination

KI Claycomb, KM Johnson, PN Winokur, AV Sacino… - Brain sciences, 2013 - mdpi.com
Astrocytes regulate fundamentally important functions to maintain central nervous system
(CNS) homeostasis. Altered astrocytic function is now recognized as a primary contributing …

Molecular and functional properties of cortical astrocytes during peripherally induced neuroinflammation

B Diaz-Castro, AM Bernstein, G Coppola… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Astrocytic contributions to neuroinflammation are widely implicated in disease, but they
remain incompletely explored. We assess medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) and visual cortex …

Astrocyte barriers to neurotoxic inflammation

MV Sofroniew - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Astrocytes form borders (glia limitans) that separate neural from non-neural tissue along
perivascular spaces, meninges and tissue lesions in the CNS. Transgenic loss-of-function …