Microglia–astrocyte interaction in neural development and neural pathogenesis

M Sun, H You, X Hu, Y Luo, Z Zhang, Y Song, J An… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The interaction between microglia and astrocytes exhibits a relatively balanced state in
order to maintain homeostasis in the healthy central nervous system (CNS). Disease stimuli …

Immunological markers for central nervous system glia

H Huang, W He, T Tang, M Qiu - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) are composed of oligodendrocytes,
astrocytes and microglia. They contribute more than half of the total cells of the CNS, and are …

Spatiotemporal molecular dynamics of the developing human thalamus

CN Kim, D Shin, A Wang, TJ Nowakowski - Science, 2023 - science.org
The thalamus plays a central coordinating role in the brain. Thalamic neurons are organized
into spatially distinct nuclei, but the molecular architecture of thalamic development is poorly …

An atlas of late prenatal human neurodevelopment resolved by single-nucleus transcriptomics

SI Ramos, ZM Mussa, EN Falk, B Pai, B Giotti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Late prenatal development of the human neocortex encompasses a critical period of
gliogenesis and cortical expansion. However, systematic single-cell analyses to resolve …

Human and mouse cortical astrocytes: a comparative view from development to morphological and functional characterization

E Degl'Innocenti, MT Dell'Anno - Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The vision of astroglia as a bare scaffold to neuronal circuitry has been largely overturned.
Astrocytes exert a neurotrophic function, but also take active part in supporting synaptic …

Interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology training applies neural exposome perspectives to neurology principles and practice

MS Scher - Frontiers in neurology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
An interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology (FNN) program over the first 1,000 days
teaches perspectives of the neural exposome that are applicable across the life span. This …

Cerebral organoids as an experimental platform for human neurogenomics

TJ Nowakowski, SR Salama - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cerebral cortex forms early in development according to a series of heritable
neurodevelopmental instructions. Despite deep evolutionary conservation of the cerebral …

Dlx1/2-dependent expression of Meis2 promotes neuronal fate determination in the mammalian striatum

Z Su, Z Wang, S Lindtner, L Yang, Z Shang… - …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The striatum is a central regulator of behavior and motor function through the actions of D1
and D2 medium-sized spiny neurons (MSNs), which arise from a common lateral ganglionic …

Glial progenitor heterogeneity and key regulators revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing provide insight to regeneration in spinal cord injury

H Wei, X Wu, J Withrow, RCD Duran, S Singh… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Recent studies have revealed the heterogeneous nature of astrocytes; however, how
diverse constituents of astrocyte-lineage cells are regulated in adult spinal cord after injury …

Molecular and cellular dynamics of the developing human neocortex at single-cell resolution

L Wang, C Wang, JA Moriano, S Chen, G Zuo… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The development of the human neocortex is a highly dynamic process and involves complex
cellular trajectories controlled by cell-type-specific gene regulation1. Here, we collected …