Astrocyte energy and neurotransmitter metabolism in Alzheimer's disease: integration of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle

JV Andersen, A Schousboe, A Verkhratsky - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Astrocytes contribute to the complex cellular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Neurons and astrocytes function in close collaboration through neurotransmitter recycling …

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 …

Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

IG Onyango, GV Jauregui, M Čarná, JP Bennett Jr… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with human aging.
Ten percent of individuals over 65 years have AD and its prevalence continues to rise with …

Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells improve cognitive impairment in an Alzheimer's disease model by increasing the expression of microRNA-146a in …

M Nakano, K Kubota, E Kobayashi, TS Chikenji… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-β and tau. We
previously reported that administration of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) …

Going the extra (synaptic) mile: excitotoxicity as the road toward neurodegenerative diseases

A Armada-Moreira, JI Gomes, CC Pina… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Excitotoxicity is a phenomenon that describes the toxic actions of excitatory
neurotransmitters, primarily glutamate, where the exacerbated or prolonged activation of …

Microglia and astrocyte function and communication: what do we know in humans?

EF Garland, IJ Hartnell, D Boche - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microglia and astrocytes play essential roles in the central nervous system contributing to
many functions including homeostasis, immune response, blood–brain barrier maintenance …

Deciphering the astrocyte reaction in Alzheimer's disease

BG Perez-Nievas, A Serrano-Pozo - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Reactive astrocytes were identified as a component of senile amyloid plaques in the cortex
of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients several decades ago. However, their role in AD …

Astrocyte senescence promotes glutamate toxicity in cortical neurons

C Limbad, TR Oron, F Alimirah, AR Davalos, TE Tracy… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Neurodegeneration is a major age-related pathology. Cognitive decline is characteristic of
patients with Alzheimer's and related dementias and cancer patients after chemo-or radio …

Intersection of pathological tau and microglia at the synapse

T Vogels, AN Murgoci, T Hromádka - Acta neuropathologica …, 2019 - Springer
Tauopathies are a heterogenous class of diseases characterized by cellular accumulation of
aggregated tau and include diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), progressive …

Glial-derived mitochondrial signals affect neuronal proteostasis and aging

R Bar-Ziv, N Dutta, A Hruby, E Sukarto, M Averbukh… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The nervous system plays a critical role in maintaining whole-organism homeostasis;
neurons experiencing mitochondrial stress can coordinate the induction of protective cellular …