Neuropathic pain: mechanisms, sex differences, and potential therapies for a global problem

S Ghazisaeidi, MM Muley… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The study of chronic pain continues to generate ever-increasing numbers of publications,
but safe and efficacious treatments for chronic pain remain elusive. Recognition of sex …

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 …

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

A Shapson-Coe, M Januszewski, DR Berger, A Pope… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
We acquired a rapidly preserved human surgical sample from the temporal lobe of the
cerebral cortex. We stained a 1 mm3 volume with heavy metals, embedded it in resin, cut …

Physiology of astroglia

A Verkhratsky, M Nedergaard - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Astrocytes are neural cells of ectodermal, neuroepithelial origin that provide for homeostasis
and defense of the central nervous system (CNS). Astrocytes are highly heterogeneous in …

Astrocytes in chronic pain and itch

RR Ji, CR Donnelly, M Nedergaard - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Astrocytes are critical for maintaining the homeostasis of the CNS. Increasing evidence
suggests that a number of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including chronic …

A path toward precision medicine for neuroinflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease

H Hampel, F Caraci, AC Cuello, G Caruso… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation commences decades before Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical onset and
represents one of the earliest pathomechanistic alterations throughout the AD continuum …

Cell densities in the mouse brain: a systematic review

D Keller, C Erö, H Markram - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The mouse brain is the most extensively studied brain of all species. We performed an
exhaustive review of the literature to establish our current state of knowledge on cell …

Astrocyte morphology: Diversity, plasticity, and role in neurological diseases

B Zhou, YX Zuo, RT Jiang - CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes are the most abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) and
participate in synaptic, circuit, and behavioral functions. The well‐developed protoplasmic …

Astrocytes, neurons, synapses: a tripartite view on cortical circuit development

I Farhy-Tselnicker, NJ Allen - Neural development, 2018 - Springer
In the mammalian cerebral cortex neurons are arranged in specific layers and form
connections both within the cortex and with other brain regions, thus forming a complex …

Improved tools to study astrocytes

X Yu, J Nagai, BS Khakh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Astrocytes are a type of glial cell that tile the CNS. They interact with multiple cell types,
including neurons, glial cells and blood vessels, and are involved or implicated in brain …