Astrocytic TLR4 at the crossroads of inflammation and seizure susceptibility

Postnatal activation of TLR4 in astrocytes promotes excitatory synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons

(2016) Yi Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Does rapid and physiological astrocyte-neuron signalling amplify epileptic activity?

(2016) Christian Henneberger   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Astrocyte uncoupling as a cause of human temporal lobe epilepsy

(2015) Peter Bedner et al.   BRAIN

Reactive Astrogliosis Causes the Development of Spontaneous Seizures

(2015) S. Robel et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Albumin induces excitatory synaptogenesis through astrocytic TGF-β/ALK5 signaling in a model of acquired epilepsy following blood–brain barrier dysfunction

(2015) Itai Weissberg et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Increased sensitivity to kindling in mice lacking TSP1

(2015) D. Mendus et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Astrocytes Control Synapse Formation, Function, and Elimination

(2015) Won-Suk Chung et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Mechanisms underlying blood-brain barrier dysfunction in brain pathology and epileptogenesis: Role of astroglia

(2012) Richard Kovács et al.   EPILEPSIA

Albumin is taken up by hippocampal NG2 cells and astrocytes and decreases gap junction coupling

(2012) Oliver Braganza et al.   EPILEPSIA

Toll-like receptor signaling in neural plasticity and disease

(2011) Eitan Okun et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Toll-like receptor 4 and high-mobility group box-1 are involved in ictogenesis and can be targeted to reduce seizures

(2010) Mattia Maroso et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Selective induction of astrocytic gliosis generates deficits in neuronal inhibition

(2010) Pavel I Ortinski et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The role of inflammation in epilepsy

(2010) Annamaria Vezzani et al.   Nature Reviews Neurology

Postnatal Inflammation Increases Seizure Susceptibility in Adult Rats

(2008) M. A. Galic et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE