Function and therapeutic value of astrocytes in neurological diseases

HG Lee, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that perform diverse
functions in health and disease. Astrocyte dysfunction is found in numerous diseases …

Roles of neuropathology-associated reactive astrocytes: a systematic review

JM Lawrence, K Schardien, B Wigdahl… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
In the contexts of aging, injury, or neuroinflammation, activated microglia signaling with TNF-
α, IL-1α, and C1q induces a neurotoxic astrocytic phenotype, classified as A1, A1-like, or …

Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

C Escartin, E Galea, A Lakatos, JP O'Callaghan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reactive astrocytes are astrocytes undergoing morphological, molecular, and functional
remodeling in response to injury, disease, or infection of the CNS. Although this remodeling …

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 …

Cell-autonomous effects of APOE4 in restricting microglial response in brain homeostasis and Alzheimer's disease

CC Liu, N Wang, Y Chen, Y Inoue, F Shue, Y Ren… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglial involvement in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology has emerged as a risk-
determining pathogenic event. While apolipoprotein E (APOE) is known to modify AD risk, it …

Astrocyte function from information processing to cognition and cognitive impairment

M Santello, N Toni, A Volterra - Nature neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Astrocytes serve important roles that affect recruitment and function of neurons at the local
and network levels. Here we review the contributions of astrocyte signaling to synaptic …

Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals—from acquisition to interpretation

A Semyanov, C Henneberger, A Agarwal - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Astrocytes functionally interact with neurons and with other brain cells. Although not
electrically excitable, astrocytes display a complex repertoire of intracellular Ca2+ signalling …

Activation of microglia and astrocytes: a roadway to neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease

D Kaur, V Sharma, R Deshmukh - Inflammopharmacology, 2019 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that is of high importance to the
neuroscience world, yet the complex pathogenicity is not fully understood. Inflammation is …

The cellular phase of Alzheimer's disease

B De Strooper, E Karran - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease (AD) posits a neuron-centric, linear cascade
initiated by Aβ and leading to dementia. This direct causality is incompatible with clinical …

Mitochondria and calcium in Alzheimer's disease: from cell signaling to neuronal cell death

M Calvo-Rodriguez, BJ Bacskai - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of almost all
neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Historically, a primary focus in …