Experiments in mouse-derived astrocytes and human embryonic stem cells identify GLIS3 as an upstream regulator of astrocyte ...

Adult astrocytes stretched, divided, and moved new nuclei into damaged brain regions during a temporary repair state.

A mouse study shows that CD51-positive and CD51-negative astrocytes have distinct roles in synapse formation, memory-circuit ...

Astrocytes are the most abundant glia cell type and regulate synapse formation, maturation, and function. Though often studied as a single population, astrocytes are now recognized as encompassing a ...

Why do some people with amyloid plaques decline, while others do not? In the May 29 Nature Medicine, researchers led by Tharick Pascoal at the University of Pittsburgh laid some of the blame on ...

A new study shows that the activation of the brain's immune defense cells—astrocytes—in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease could be tracked early with a brain PET scanner and is linked to changes ...

In a recent review published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, researchers reviewed existing data on the neurodegenerative effects of astrocyte-derived lipocalin-2 (LCN-2). Study: Lipocalin-2: a ...

Astrocytes form large networks of interconnected cells in the central nervous system. When these cell-to-cell couplings are disrupted in the brain of adult mice, the animals are no longer able to ...

The adage of astrocytes as doting neuronal nursemaids has been supplanted by the view that astrocytes play a muscular part in the function of the brain. Provoke them, and astrocytes can shift from ...