Regulation of cholesterol homeostasis in health and diseases: from mechanisms to targeted therapeutics

Y Duan, K Gong, S Xu, F Zhang, X Meng… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Disturbed cholesterol homeostasis plays critical roles in the development of multiple
diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), neurodegenerative diseases and …

Questions and (some) answers on reactive astrocytes

C Escartin, O Guillemaud, M Carrillo‐de Sauvage - Glia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes are key cellular partners for neurons in the central nervous system. Astrocytes
react to virtually all types of pathological alterations in brain homeostasis by significant …

Elusive roles for reactive astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases

L Ben Haim, MA Carrillo-de Sauvage… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes play crucial roles in the brain and are involved in the neuroinflammatory
response. They become reactive in response to virtually all pathological situations in the …

Astrocytes in neurodegenerative disease

H Phatnani, T Maniatis - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2015 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Astrocytes contribute to the maintenance of the health and function of the central nervous
system (CNS). Thus, it is not surprising that these multifunctional cells have been implicated …

Astrocytes as guardians of neuronal excitability: mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis

QP Verhoog, L Holtman, E Aronica… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Astrocytes are key homeostatic regulators in the central nervous system and play important
roles in physiology. After brain damage caused by eg, status epilepticus, traumatic brain …

Formation and function of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine in mammalian cells

JE Vance, G Tasseva - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) are metabolically related
membrane aminophospholipids. In mammalian cells, PS is required for targeting and …

A concerted neuron–astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia

E Ling, J Nemesh, M Goldman, N Kamitaki, N Reed… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in
cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and …

Cholesterol in brain disease: sometimes determinant and frequently implicated

MG Martín, F Pfrieger, CG Dotti - EMBO reports, 2014 - embopress.org
Cholesterol is essential for neuronal physiology, both during development and in the adult
life: as a major component of cell membranes and precursor of steroid hormones, it …

Cholesterol metabolism in neurons and astrocytes

FW Pfrieger, N Ungerer - Progress in lipid research, 2011 - Elsevier
Cells in the mammalian body must accurately maintain their content of cholesterol, which is
an essential membrane component and precursor for vital signalling molecules. Outside the …

Dysregulation of cholesterol balance in the brain: contribution to neurodegenerative diseases

JE Vance - Disease models & mechanisms, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Dysregulation of cholesterol homeostasis in the brain is increasingly being linked to chronic
neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Huntington's disease …