Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

C Escartin, E Galea, A Lakatos, JP O'Callaghan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes are astrocytes undergoing morphological, molecular, and functional
remodeling in response to injury, disease, or infection of the CNS. Although this remodeling …

Beyond the GFAP-astrocyte protein markers in the brain

AM Jurga, M Paleczna, J Kadluczka, KZ Kuter - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The idea of central nervous system as one-man band favoring neurons is long gone. Now
we all are aware that neurons and neuroglia are team players and constant communication …

Molecular basis of astrocyte diversity and morphology across the CNS in health and disease

F Endo, A Kasai, JS Soto, X Yu, Z Qu, H Hashimoto… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Astrocytes, a type of glia, are abundant and morphologically complex cells. Here, we report
astrocyte molecular profiles, diversity, and morphology across the mouse central nervous …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial transcriptomics and in situ sequencing to study Alzheimer's disease

WT Chen, A Lu, K Craessaerts, B Pavie, CS Frigerio… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Although complex inflammatory-like alterations are observed around the amyloid plaques of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the molecular changes and cellular …

Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology

Z Jiwaji, SS Tiwari, RX Avilés-Reyes, M Hooley… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) alters astrocytes, but the effect of Aß and Tau pathology is poorly
understood. TRAP-seq translatome analysis of astrocytes in APP/PS1 ß-amyloidopathy and …

Stroke subtype-dependent synapse elimination by reactive gliosis in mice

X Shi, L Luo, J Wang, H Shen, Y Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The pathological role of reactive gliosis in CNS repair remains controversial. In this study,
using murine ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke models, we demonstrated that microglia …

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 …

Microglia are an essential component of the neuroprotective scar that forms after spinal cord injury

V Bellver-Landete, F Bretheau, B Mailhot… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The role of microglia in spinal cord injury (SCI) remains poorly understood and is often
confused with the response of macrophages. Here, we use specific transgenic mouse lines …

An ultra high-throughput method for single-cell joint analysis of open chromatin and transcriptome

C Zhu, M Yu, H Huang, I Juric, A Abnousi… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
Simultaneous profiling of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility within single cells is a
powerful approach to dissect gene regulatory programs in complex tissues. However …

Improved tools to study astrocytes

X Yu, J Nagai, BS Khakh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Astrocytes are a type of glial cell that tile the CNS. They interact with multiple cell types,
including neurons, glial cells and blood vessels, and are involved or implicated in brain …