Intercellular calcium (Ca2+) waves (ICWs) represent the propagation of increases in
intracellular Ca2+ through a syncytium of cells and appear to be a fundamental mechanism …

Several lines of evidence indicate that the elaborated calcium signals and the occurrence of
calcium waves in astrocytes provide these cells with a specific form of excitability. The …

Calcium waves represent a widespread form of intercellular communication. Although they
have been thought for a long time to require gap junctions, we recently demonstrated that …

J. Neurochem.(2011) 118, 826–840. Abstract Inflammation contributes to
neurodegeneration in post‐ischemic brain, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. Participants …

Microglia and astrocytes in the central nervous system are now recognized as active
participants in various pathological conditions such as trauma, stroke, or chronic …

This review article summarizes early and recent literature on the structure, distribution and
composition of gap junctions between astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, and the differential …

Summry—Gap junctions are widely expressed in the various cell types of the central
nervous system. These specialized membrane intercellular junctions provide the …

Gap junctions are membrane structures made of intercellular channels which permit the
diffusion from cytoplasm to cytoplasm of small hydrophilic molecules. Nearly 40 years ago …

Using a human glial fibrillary acidic protein (hGFAP) promoter-driven cre transgene, we
have achieved efficient inactivation of a floxed connexin43 (Cx43) gene in astrocytes of …

Two main characteristics of astrocytes are their elaborated intracellular calcium signaling
and their high degree of intercellular communication mediated by gap junctional channels …