Function and therapeutic value of astrocytes in neurological diseases

HG Lee, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that perform diverse
functions in health and disease. Astrocyte dysfunction is found in numerous diseases …

Astrocyte crosstalk in CNS inflammation

M Linnerbauer, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes control multiple processes in the nervous system in health and disease. It is now
clear that specific astrocyte subsets or activation states are associated with specific genomic …

Identification of ligand–receptor pairs that drive human astrocyte development

AJ Voss, SN Lanjewar, MM Sampson, A King… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extrinsic signaling between diverse cell types is crucial for nervous system development.
Ligand binding is a key driver of developmental processes. Nevertheless, it remains a …

Physiology of astroglia

A Verkhratsky, M Nedergaard - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Astrocytes are neural cells of ectodermal, neuroepithelial origin that provide for homeostasis
and defense of the central nervous system (CNS). Astrocytes are highly heterogeneous in …

Protective functions of reactive astrocytes following central nervous system insult

M Linnerbauer, V Rothhammer - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes play important roles in numerous central nervous system disorders including
autoimmune inflammatory, hypoxic, and degenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA-seq analysis of retinal development identifies NFI factors as regulating mitotic exit and late-born cell specification

BS Clark, GL Stein-O'Brien, F Shiau, GH Cannon… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Precise temporal control of gene expression in neuronal progenitors is necessary for correct
regulation of neurogenesis and cell fate specification. However, the cellular heterogeneity of …

Neuroinflammation: An astrocyte perspective

HG Lee, JH Lee, LE Flausino… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that play active roles
in health and disease. Recent technologies have uncovered the functional heterogeneity of …

[PDF][PDF] Single cell transcriptomics reveals spatial and temporal dynamics of gene expression in the developing mouse spinal cord

J Delile, T Rayon, M Melchionda, A Edwards… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The coordinated spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression in the vertebrate neural
tube determines the identity of neural progenitors and the function and physiology of the …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing neuronal diversity in the spinal cord: a time and a place

A Sagner, J Briscoe - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The vertebrate spinal cord comprises multiple functionally distinct neuronal cell types
arranged in characteristic positions. During development, these different types of neurons …

[HTML][HTML] The neuropeptide Tac2 controls a distributed brain state induced by chronic social isolation stress

M Zelikowsky, M Hui, T Karigo, A Choe, B Yang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Chronic social isolation causes severe psychological effects in humans, but their neural
bases remain poorly understood. 2 weeks (but not 24 hr) of social isolation stress (SIS) …