Recent insights on astrocyte mechanisms in CNS homeostasis, pathology, and repair

CG Hart, S Karimi‐Abdolrezaee - Journal of neuroscience …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes play essential roles in development, homeostasis, injury, and repair of the central
nervous system (CNS). Their development is tightly regulated by distinct spatial and …

The diagnostic and therapeutic potential of galectin-3 in cardiovascular diseases

G Sygitowicz, A Maciejak-Jastrzębska, D Sitkiewicz - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galectin-3 plays a prominent role in chronic inflammation and has been implicated in the
development of many disease conditions, including heart disease. Galectin-3, a regulatory …

Single-cell transcriptomic analyses of the developing meninges reveal meningeal fibroblast diversity and function

J DeSisto, R O'Rourke, HE Jones, B Pawlikowski… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The meninges are a multilayered structure composed of fibroblasts, blood and lymphatic
vessels, and immune cells. Meningeal fibroblasts secrete a variety of factors that control …

Galectin-3 blockade inhibits cardiac inflammation and fibrosis in experimental hyperaldosteronism and hypertension

E Martínez-Martínez, L Calvier, A Fernández-Celis… - …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertensive cardiac remodeling is accompanied by molecular inflammation and fibrosis, 2
mechanisms that finally affect cardiac function. At cardiac level, aldosterone promotes …

Endothelial deletion of EPH receptor A4 alters single-cell profile and Tie2/Akap12 signaling to preserve blood–brain barrier integrity

A Cash, C de Jager, T Brickler… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neurobiological consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) result from a complex interplay
of secondary injury responses and sequela that mediates chronic disability. Endothelial cells …

Inference of differential key regulatory networks and mechanistic drug repurposing candidates from scRNA-seq data with SCANet

M Oubounyt, L Adlung, F Patroni, NK Wenke… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The reconstruction of small key regulatory networks that explain the differences in
the development of cell (sub) types from single-cell RNA sequencing is a yet unresolved …

Reversible lysine fatty acylation of an anchoring protein mediates adipocyte adrenergic signaling

RA Bagchi, EL Robinson, T Hu, J Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
N-myristoylation on glycine is an irreversible modification that has long been recognized to
govern protein localization and function. In contrast, the biological roles of lysine …

PDGFR-β-positive perivascular adventitial cells expressing nestin contribute to fibrotic scar formation in the striatum of 3-NP intoxicated rats

TR Riew, JH Choi, HL Kim, X Jin… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Perivascular cells expressing platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFR-β) have
recently been implicated in fibrotic scar formation after acute brain injury, but their precise …

Central nervous system fibroblast-like cells in stroke and other neurological disorders

L Xu, Y Yao - Stroke, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Fibroblasts are the most common cell type of connective tissues. In the central nervous
system (CNS), fibroblast-like cells are mainly located in the meninges and perivascular …

Physiologic and pathophysiologic roles of AKAP12

H Li - Science Progress, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A kinase anchoring protein (AKAP) 12 is a scaffolding protein that improves the specificity
and efficiency of spatiotemporal signal through assembling intracellular signal proteins into …