The homeostatic astroglia emerges from evolutionary specialization of neural cells

Astrocytes as secretory cells of the central nervous system: idiosyncrasies of vesicular secretion

(2016) A. Verkhratsky et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Principles of sodium homeostasis and sodium signalling in astroglia

(2016) Christine R. Rose et al.   GLIA

Changes in the composition of brain interstitial ions control the sleep-wake cycle

(2016) Fengfei Ding et al.   SCIENCE

Neurons diversify astrocytes in the adult brain through sonic hedgehog signaling

(2016) W. T. Farmer et al.   SCIENCE

Astrocytes: a central element in neurological diseases

(2015) Milos Pekny et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Astrocyte uncoupling as a cause of human temporal lobe epilepsy

(2015) Peter Bedner et al.   BRAIN

Targeting astrocytes in major depression

(2015) Liang Peng et al.   Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Morphological plasticity of astroglia: Understanding synaptic microenvironment

(2015) Janosch P. Heller et al.   GLIA

Astrocyte development: A Guide for the Perplexed

(2015) Anna Victoria Molofsky et al.   GLIA

Ultra-fast magnetic resonance encephalography of physiological brain activity – Glymphatic pulsation mechanisms?

(2015) Vesa Kiviniemi et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Implications of the discovery of brain lymphatic pathways

(2015) Jeffrey J Iliff et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Disentangling calcium-driven astrocyte physiology

(2015) Dmitri A. Rusakov   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Fine Astrocyte Processes Contain Very Small Mitochondria: Glial Oxidative Capability May Fuel Transmitter Metabolism

(2015) Amin Derouiche et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

The Glymphatic System: A Beginner’s Guide

(2015) Nadia Aalling Jessen et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Origin of Microglia: Current Concepts and Past Controversies

(2015) Florent Ginhoux et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Nanoconnectomic upper bound on the variability of synaptic plasticity

(2015) Thomas M Bartol et al.   eLife

Targeting astrocytes in major depression

(2015) Liang Peng et al.   Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Impairment of paravascular clearance pathways in the aging brain

(2014) Benjamin T. Kress et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

The Molecular and Systems Biology of Memory

(2014) Eric R. Kandel et al.   CELL

Pathological Role for Exocytotic Glutamate Release from Astrocytes in Hepatic Encephalopathy

(2014) Vedrana Montana et al.   Current Neuropharmacology

Dynamics of β-adrenergic/cAMP signaling and morphological changes in cultured astrocytes

(2014) Nina Vardjan et al.   GLIA

A Competitive Advantage by Neonatally Engrafted Human Glial Progenitors Yields Mice Whose Brains Are Chimeric for Human Glia

(2014) M. S. Windrem et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Reactive Gliosis and the Multicellular Response to CNS Damage and Disease

(2014) Joshua E. Burda et al.   NEURON

A Local Glutamate-Glutamine Cycle Sustains Synaptic Excitatory Transmitter Release

(2014) Hiroaki Tani et al.   NEURON

Glial Asthenia and Functional Paralysis

(2014) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Astroglial cradle in the life of the synapse

(2014) A. Verkhratsky et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Astrocyte Development and Heterogeneity

(2014) Omer Ali Bayraktar et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

α1-Adrenergic receptors mediate coordinated Ca2+ signaling of cortical astrocytes in awake, behaving mice

(2013) Fengfei Ding et al.   CELL CALCIUM

Forebrain Engraftment by Human Glial Progenitor Cells Enhances Synaptic Plasticity and Learning in Adult Mice

(2013) Xiaoning Han et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Astrocyte Pathology in Major Depressive Disorder: Insights from Human Postmortem Brain Tissue

(2013) Grazyna Rajkowska et al.   CURRENT DRUG TARGETS

Brain-wide pathway for waste clearance captured by contrast-enhanced MRI

(2013) Jeffrey J. Iliff et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Synapses lacking astrocyte appear in the amygdala during consolidation of pavlovian threat conditioning

(2013) Linnaea E. Ostroff et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

GLAST/EAAT1-induced Glutamine release via SNAT3 in Bergmann glial cells: evidence of a functional and physical coupling

(2013) Zila Martínez-Lozada et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Inducible Presynaptic Glutamine Transport Supports Glutamatergic Transmission at the Calyx of Held Synapse

(2013) D. Billups et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Zinc is released by cultured astrocytes as a gliotransmitter under hypoosmotic stress-loaded conditions and regulates microglial activity

(2013) Shohei Segawa et al.   LIFE SCIENCES

Astrocytes mediate synapse elimination through MEGF10 and MERTK pathways

(2013) Won-Suk Chung et al.   NATURE

Microglia: New Roles for the Synaptic Stripper

(2013) Helmut Kettenmann et al.   NEURON

Mechanisms regulating the development of oligodendrocytes and central nervous system myelin

(2013) S. Mitew et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Astrogliopathology

(2013) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain

(2013) L. Xie et al.   SCIENCE

Neurological Diseases as Primary Gliopathies: A Reassessment of Neurocentrism

(2012) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   ASN Neuro

Clonal Identity Determines Astrocyte Cortical Heterogeneity

(2012) Jorge García-Marqués et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Antidepressants act directly on astrocytes: Evidences and functional consequences

(2012) Boldizsár Czéh et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Intracellular Na+ concentration influences short-term plasticity of glutamate transporter-mediated currents in neocortical astrocytes

(2012) Petr Unichenko et al.   GLIA

Artifact versus reality-How astrocytes contribute to synaptic events

(2012) Maiken Nedergaard et al.   GLIA

Alexander Disease

(2012) A. Messing et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Astroglial glutamate transporters trigger glutaminergic gliotransmission

(2012) Dmitri A. Rusakov   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Activation of glutamate transport evokes rapid glutamine release from perisynaptic astrocytes

(2012) Nneka M. Uwechue et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Kynurenines in the mammalian brain: when physiology meets pathology

(2012) Robert Schwarcz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Glial K+ Clearance and Cell Swelling: Key Roles for Cotransporters and Pumps

(2012) Nanna MacAulay et al.   NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH

Quantitative imaging of energy expenditure in human brain

(2012) Xiao-Hong Zhu et al.   NEUROIMAGE

A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid  

(2012) J. J. Iliff et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Sodium dynamics: another key to astroglial excitability?

(2012) Sergei Kirischuk et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Synapses and Memory Storage

(2012) M. Mayford et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Homeostatic function of astrocytes: Ca2+ and Na+ signalling

(2012) Vladimir Parpura et al.   Translational Neuroscience

Astrocyte-Neuron Lactate Transport Is Required for Long-Term Memory Formation

(2011) Akinobu Suzuki et al.   CELL

Molecular signals of plasticity at the tetrapartite synapse

(2011) Alexander Dityatev et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

How many neurons do you have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience under revision

(2011) Roberto Lent et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Stab wound injury of the zebrafish telencephalon: A model for comparative analysis of reactive gliosis

(2011) Emily Violette Baumgart et al.   GLIA

Morphological diversity and development of glia in Drosophila

(2011) Volker Hartenstein   GLIA

The evolutionary origins of glia

(2011) Daniel K. Hartline   GLIA

Sweet Sixteen for ANLS

(2011) Luc Pellerin et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Calcium signalling in astroglia

(2011) Alexei Verkhratsky et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Towards a glutamate hypothesis of depression

(2011) Gerard Sanacora et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Radial Glia: Progenitor, Pathway, and Partner

(2011) Mari Sild et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Physiology of Microglia

(2011) Helmut Kettenmann et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Astrocytes carrying the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1G93A) mutation induce wild-type motor neuron degeneration in vivo

(2011) S. T. Papadeas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural plasticity of perisynaptic astrocyte processes involves ezrin and metabotropic glutamate receptors

(2011) M. Lavialle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neurotransmitter transporters expressed in glial cells as regulators of synapse function

(2010) Volker Eulenburg et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Morphology and dynamics of perisynaptic glia

(2010) Andreas Reichenbach et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Glial calcium and diseases of the nervous system

(2010) Maiken Nedergaard et al.   CELL CALCIUM

The Glia of Caenorhabditis elegans

(2010) Grigorios Oikonomou et al.   GLIA

The perivascular astroglial sheath provides a complete covering of the brain microvessels: An electron microscopic 3D reconstruction

(2010) Thomas Misje Mathiisen et al.   GLIA

Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia

(2010) Cagla Eroglu et al.   NATURE

Physiology of neuronal–glial networking

(2010) Alexei Verkhratsky   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Functions of Mature Mammalian Astrocytes: A Current View

(2010) Harold K. Kimelberg   NEUROSCIENTIST

The functional organisation of glia in the adult brain of Drosophila and other insects

(2010) Tara N. Edwards et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Microglial Interactions with Synapses Are Modulated by Visual Experience

(2010) Marie-Ève Tremblay et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ion changes and signalling in perisynaptic glia

(2009) Joachim W. Deitmer et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Heterogeneity in astrocyte morphology and physiology

(2009) Vitali Matyash et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Adenosine signaling and function in glial cells

(2009) D Boison et al.   CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION

Recent Developments in the Understanding of Astrocyte Function in the Cerebellum In Vivo

(2009) Tycho M. Hoogland et al.   CEREBELLUM

The central nervous system of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) shows positive immunostaining for a chordate glial secretion

(2009) Vladimir S Mashanov et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Loss of astrocytic glutamate transporters in Wernicke encephalopathy

(2009) Alan S. Hazell et al.   GLIA

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

What learning in day-old chickens can teach a neurochemist: focus on astrocyte metabolism

(2009) Leif Hertz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Uniquely Hominid Features of Adult Human Astrocytes

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

Purinoceptors on Neuroglia

(2009) Alexei Verkhrasky et al.   MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

Astrocytes are a major target in thiamine deficiency and Wernicke's encephalopathy

(2009) Alan S. Hazell   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Low-Cost Travel in Neurons

(2009) P. J. Magistretti   SCIENCE

Glial Loss in the Prefrontal Cortex Is Sufficient to Induce Depressive-like Behaviors

(2008) Mounira Banasr et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Evolutionary Changes of Astroglia in Elasmobranchii Comparing to Amniotes: A Study Based on Three Immunohistochemical Markers (GFAP, S-100, and Glutamine Synthetase)

(2008) Csilla Ari et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Focal degeneration of astrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) D Rossi et al.   CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION

Glial architecture of the ghost shark (Callorhinchus milii, Holocephali, Chondrichthyes) as revealed by different immunohistochemical markers

(2008) Csilla Ari et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Functional implications for Kir4.1 channels in glial biology: from K+buffering to cell differentiation

(2008) Michelle L. Olsen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Astrocytes as determinants of disease progression in inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) Koji Yamanaka et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Activity-Dependent Structural and Functional Plasticity of Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions

(2008) Dionysia T. Theodosis et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Glia Are Essential for Sensory Organ Function in C. elegans

(2008) T. Bacaj et al.   SCIENCE

Neocortical glial cell numbers in human brains

(2007) D.P. Pelvig et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING