Glial fibrillary acidic protein: from intermediate filament assembly and gliosis to neurobiomarker

Z Yang, KKW Wang - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is an intermediate filament (IF) III protein uniquely found
in astrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS), non-myelinating Schwann cells in the …

GFAP in health and disease

J Middeldorp, EM Hol - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the main intermediate filament protein in mature
astrocytes, but also an important component of the cytoskeleton in astrocytes during …

Glial fibrillary acidic protein: GFAP-thirty-one years (1969–2000)

LF Eng, RS Ghirnikar, YL Lee - Neurochemical research, 2000 - Springer
It is now well established that the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the principal 8–9 nm
intermediate filament in mature astrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS). Over a …

Disease-specific alterations in frontal cortex brain proteins in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder

NL Johnston-Wilson, CD Sims, JP Hofmann… - Molecular …, 2000 - nature.com
Severe psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive
disorder are brain diseases of unknown origin. No biological marker has been documented …

GFAP at 50

A Messing, M Brenner - ASN neuro, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Fifty years have passed since the discovery of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) by
Lawrence Eng and colleagues. Now recognized as a member of the intermediate filament …

Enteric GFAP expression and phosphorylation in Parkinson's disease

T Clairembault, W Kamphuis… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Enteric glial cells (EGC s) are in many respects similar to astrocytes of the central nervous
system and express similar proteins including glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Changes …

Successful differentiation of mouse neural stem cells on layer-by-layer assembled single-walled carbon nanotube composite

E Jan, NA Kotov - Nano letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
The same properties that made carbon nanotube (CNT) composites interesting for
electronics, sensing, and ultrastrong structural materials also make them an asset for …

Lipocalin-2 is an autocrine mediator of reactive astrocytosis

S Lee, JY Park, WH Lee, H Kim, HC Park… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell type in the brain, provide metabolic and trophic
support to neurons and modulate synaptic activity. In response to a brain injury, astrocytes …

[HTML][HTML] Chronology of optic nerve head and retinal responses to elevated intraocular pressure

EC Johnson, LMH Deppmeier… - … & visual science, 2000 - arvojournals.org
purpose. To determine the chronology of optic nerve head and retinal responses to elevated
intraocular pressure (IOP). methods. After 1 to 39 days of unilaterally elevated IOP …

Invited Review: The crossed phrenic phenomenon: a model for plasticity in the respiratory pathways following spinal cord injury

HG Goshgarian - Journal of applied physiology, 2003 - journals.physiology.org
Hemisection of the cervical spinal cord rostral to the level of the phrenic nucleus interrupts
descending bulbospinal respiratory pathways, which results in a paralysis of the ipsilateral …