NFIA is a gliogenic switch enabling rapid derivation of functional human astrocytes from pluripotent stem cells

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Reactive Astrocytes: Production, Function, and Therapeutic Potential

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Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia

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Cell Biology of Astrocyte-Synapse Interactions

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An Efficient Platform for Astrocyte Differentiation from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Differentiation of Inflammation-Responsive Astrocytes from Glial Progenitors Generated from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Neural Subtype Specification from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Functional Connectivity under Optogenetic Control Allows Modeling of Human Neuromuscular Disease

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A comparative transcriptomic analysis of astrocytes differentiation from human neural progenitor cells

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Modeling ALS with motor neurons derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

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Purification and Characterization of Progenitor and Mature Human Astrocytes Reveals Transcriptional and Functional Differences with Mouse

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deepTools2: a next generation web server for deep-sequencing data analysis

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Astrocyte Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: New Tools for Neurological Disorder Research

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TGF-β Family Signaling in the Control of Cell Proliferation and Survival

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Programming and Reprogramming Cellular Age in the Era of Induced Pluripotency

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Pluripotent stem cell-based disease modeling: current hurdles and future promise

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Retinoic Acid-Mediated Regulation of GLI3 Enables Efficient Motoneuron Derivation from Human ESCs in the Absence of Extrinsic SHH Activation

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Dysregulation of astrocyte extracellular signaling in Costello syndrome

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Generation of human pluripotent stem cell reporter lines for the isolation of and reporting on astrocytes generated from ventral midbrain and ventral spinal cord neural progenitors

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HTSeq--a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data

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Modeling ALS with iPSCs Reveals that Mutant SOD1 Misregulates Neurofilament Balance in Motor Neurons

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Mutant astrocytes differentiated from Rett syndrome patients-specific iPSCs have adverse effects on wild-type neurons

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let-7 miRNAs Can Act through Notch to Regulate Human Gliogenesis

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The Cell-Cycle State of Stem Cells Determines Cell Fate Propensity

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Directed Differentiation and Functional Maturation of Cortical Interneurons from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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Astrocytes and disease: a neurodevelopmental perspective

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Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

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Specification of transplantable astroglial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells

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Interplay between SIN3A and STAT3 Mediates Chromatin Conformational Changes and GFAP Expression during Cellular Differentiation

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Group IIA secretory phospholipase A2(GIIA) mediates apoptotic death during NMDA receptor activation in rat primary cortical neurons

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Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities

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Astrocytes: biology and pathology

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Loss of the mammalian APC/C activator FZR1 shortens G1 and lengthens S phase but has little effect on exit from mitosis

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Uniquely Hominid Features of Adult Human Astrocytes

(2009) N. A. Oberheim et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources

(2009) Da Wei Huang et al.   Nature Protocols

Polycomb Limits the Neurogenic Competence of Neural Precursor Cells to Promote Astrogenic Fate Transition

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A rosette-type, self-renewing human ES cell-derived neural stem cell with potential for in vitro instruction and synaptic integration

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Visualizing Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Multicellular Cell-Cycle Progression

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Application of a Translational Profiling Approach for the Comparative Analysis of CNS Cell Types

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Human ES cell-derived neural rosettes reveal a functionally distinct early neural stem cell stage

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A Transcriptome Database for Astrocytes, Neurons, and Oligodendrocytes: A New Resource for Understanding Brain Development and Function

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Requirement for COUP-TFI and II in the temporal specification of neural stem cells in CNS development

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