GFAP in health and disease

J Middeldorp, EM Hol - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is the main intermediate filament protein in mature
astrocytes, but also an important component of the cytoskeleton in astrocytes during …

Gene therapy for neurological disorders: progress and prospects

BE Deverman, BM Ravina, KS Bankiewicz… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are a rapidly emerging gene therapy platform for the
treatment of neurological diseases. In preclinical studies, transgenes encoding therapeutic …

Engineered AAVs for efficient noninvasive gene delivery to the central and peripheral nervous systems

KY Chan, MJ Jang, BB Yoo, A Greenbaum, N Ravi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are commonly used for in vivo gene transfer.
Nevertheless, AAVs that provide efficient transduction across specific organs or cell …

Revisiting astrocyte to neuron conversion with lineage tracing in vivo

LL Wang, C Serrano, X Zhong, S Ma, Y Zou, CL Zhang - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
In vivo cell fate conversions have emerged as potential regeneration-based therapeutics for
injury and disease. Recent studies reported that ectopic expression or knockdown of certain …

Gut-licensed IFNγ+ NK cells drive LAMP1+TRAIL+ anti-inflammatory astrocytes

LM Sanmarco, MA Wheeler, C Gutiérrez-Vázquez… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Astrocytes are glial cells that are abundant in the central nervous system (CNS) and that
have important homeostatic and disease-promoting functions. However, little is known about …

MAFG-driven astrocytes promote CNS inflammation

MA Wheeler, IC Clark, EC Tjon, Z Li, SEJ Zandee… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the CNS. Astrocytes contribute to the
pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, but little is known about the heterogeneity of astrocytes …

Barcoded viral tracing of single-cell interactions in central nervous system inflammation

IC Clark, C Gutiérrez-Vázquez, MA Wheeler, Z Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Glial cells of the central nervous system (CNS), including astrocytes and
microglia, play critical roles in development, tissue repair, and homeostasis. However …

Chemico-genetic discovery of astrocytic control of inhibition in vivo

T Takano, JT Wallace, KT Baldwin, AM Purkey, A Uezu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Perisynaptic astrocytic processes are an integral part of central nervous system synapses,;
however, the molecular mechanisms that govern astrocyte–synapse adhesions and how …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo evidence for a lactate gradient from astrocytes to neurons

P Mächler, MT Wyss, M Elsayed, J Stobart, R Gutierrez… - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Investigating lactate dynamics in brain tissue is challenging, partly because in vivo data at
cellular resolution are not available. We monitored lactate in cortical astrocytes and neurons …

Tau accumulation in astrocytes of the dentate gyrus induces neuronal dysfunction and memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease

K Richetin, P Steullet, M Pachoud, R Perbet… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of the tau protein in neurons,
neurodegeneration and memory loss. However, the role of non-neuronal cells in this chain …