Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

Spinal cord injury: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

X Hu, W Xu, Y Ren, Z Wang, X He, R Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a severe condition with an extremely high disability rate.
The challenges of SCI repair include its complex pathological mechanisms and the …

Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies

A Verkhratsky, A Butt, B Li, P Illes, R Zorec… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Astroglia are a broad class of neural parenchymal cells primarily dedicated to homoeostasis
and defence of the central nervous system (CNS). Astroglia contribute to the …

A conceptual framework for astrocyte function

C Murphy-Royal, SN Ching, T Papouin - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The participation of astrocytes in brain computation was hypothesized in 1992, coinciding
with the discovery that these cells display a form of intracellular Ca2+ signaling sensitive to …

Astrocyte morphology

KT Baldwin, KK Murai, BS Khakh - Trends in cell biology, 2024 - cell.com
Astrocytes are predominant glial cells that tile the central nervous system (CNS). A cardinal
feature of astrocytes is their complex and visually enchanting morphology, referred to as …

Reactive astrocytes transduce inflammation in a blood-brain barrier model through a TNF-STAT3 signaling axis and secretion of alpha 1-antichymotrypsin

H Kim, K Leng, J Park, AG Sorets, S Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes are critical components of the neurovascular unit that support blood-brain barrier
(BBB) function. Pathological transformation of astrocytes to reactive states can be protective …

Neuroinflammation: An astrocyte perspective

HG Lee, JH Lee, LE Flausino… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that play active roles
in health and disease. Recent technologies have uncovered the functional heterogeneity of …

Human Alzheimer's disease reactive astrocytes exhibit a loss of homeostastic gene expression

DL Dai, M Li, EB Lee - Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2023 - Springer
Astrocytes are one of the brain's major cell types and are responsible for maintaining
neuronal homeostasis via regulating the extracellular environment, providing metabolic …

Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models

F Distéfano-Gagné, S Bitarafan, S Lacroix… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
As resident macrophages of the CNS, microglia are critical immune effectors of inflammatory
lesions and associated neural dysfunctions. In multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal …

CRISPRi screens in human iPSC-derived astrocytes elucidate regulators of distinct inflammatory reactive states

K Leng, IVL Rose, H Kim, W Xia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes become reactive in response to insults to the central nervous system by adopting
context-specific cellular signatures and outputs, but a systematic understanding of the …