A star is born: new insights into the mechanism of astrogenesis

NFIA Controls Telencephalic Progenitor Cell Differentiation through Repression of the Notch Effector Hes1

(2013) M. Piper et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Retinoic Acid Induces Blood-Brain Barrier Development

(2013) M. R. Mizee et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Critical Role for Sox9 in Notch-Induced Astrogliogenesis and Stem Cell Maintenance

(2013) Simone Martini et al.   STEM CELLS

The Unfolded Protein Response in Secretory Cell Function

(2012) Kristin A. Moore et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Activation of MAPK/PI3K/SMAD Pathways by TGF-β1 Controls Differentiation of Radial Glia into Astrocytes in vitro

(2012) Joice Stipursky et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Local generation of glia is a major astrocyte source in postnatal cortex

(2012) Woo-Ping Ge et al.   NATURE

The Notch signalling system: recent insights into the complexity of a conserved pathway

(2012) K. G. Guruharsha et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Sox9 and NFIA Coordinate a Transcriptional Regulatory Cascade during the Initiation of Gliogenesis

(2012) Peng Kang et al.   NEURON

GFAP Isoforms in Adult Mouse Brain with a Focus on Neurogenic Astrocytes and Reactive Astrogliosis in Mouse Models of Alzheimer Disease

(2012) Willem Kamphuis et al.   PLoS One

The Sin3a repressor complex is a master regulator of STAT transcriptional activity

(2012) Laura Icardi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unfolded protein response, activated by OASIS family transcription factors, promotes astrocyte differentiation

(2012) Atsushi Saito et al.   Nature Communications

The Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p57Kip2 Regulates Cell Cycle Exit, Differentiation, and Migration of Embryonic Cerebral Cortical Precursors

(2011) Anna Tury et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Stem cell factor and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor promote neuronal lineage commitment of neural stem cells

(2011) Chun-Shu Piao et al.   DIFFERENTIATION

Fibroblast growth factor 2 regulates astrocyte differentiation in a region-specific manner in the hindbrain

(2011) Krithi Irmady et al.   GLIA

Fbxw7-dependent Degradation of Notch Is Required for Control of “Stemness” and Neuronal-Glial Differentiation in Neural Stem Cells

(2011) Akinobu Matsumoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Ars2 maintains neural stem-cell identity through direct transcriptional activation of Sox2

(2011) Celia Andreu-Agullo et al.   NATURE

Specification of transplantable astroglial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells

(2011) Robert Krencik et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

(2011) Pei-Yi Cheng et al.   PLoS One

Transcription factor Lhx2 is necessary and sufficient to suppress astrogliogenesis and promote neurogenesis in the developing hippocampus

(2011) L. Subramanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Efficient Differentiation of Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Functional Astrocytes

(2011) Luni Emdad et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT

Conditional deletion of Stat3 promotes neurogenesis and inhibits astrogliogenesis in neural stem cells

(2010) Fang Cao et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

BMP-induced REST regulates the establishment and maintenance of astrocytic identity

(2010) Jun Kohyama et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Developmental genetics of vertebrate glial–cell specification

(2010) David H. Rowitch et al.   NATURE

Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia

(2010) Cagla Eroglu et al.   NATURE

Fbw7 controls neural stem cell differentiation and progenitor apoptosis via Notch and c-Jun

(2010) Joerg D Hoeck et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Specification and Morphogenesis of Astrocytes

(2010) M. R. Freeman   SCIENCE

Astrocytes: biology and pathology

(2009) Michael V. Sofroniew et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

The Canonical Notch Signaling Pathway: Unfolding the Activation Mechanism

(2009) Raphael Kopan et al.   CELL

BDNF/MAPK/ERK–Induced BMP7 Expression in the Developing Cerebral Cortex Induces Premature Radial Glia Differentiation and Impairs Neuronal Migration

(2009) Juan Alberto Ortega et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Committed Neuronal Precursors Confer Astrocytic Potential on Residual Neural Precursor Cells

(2009) Masakazu Namihira et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

PACAP signaling to DREAM: A cAMP-Dependent Pathway that Regulates Cortical Astrogliogenesis

(2009) Mario Vallejo   MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

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

(2009) Yusuke Hirabayashi et al.   NEURON

Differential Deployment of REST and CoREST Promotes Glial Subtype Specification and Oligodendrocyte Lineage Maturation

(2009) Joseph J. Abrajano et al.   PLoS One

Astrocyte Differentiation of Neural Precursor Cells is Enhanced by Retinoic Acid Through a Change in Epigenetic Modification

(2009) Hirotsugu Asano et al.   STEM CELLS

Nuclear Factor I Isoforms Regulate Gene Expression During the Differentiation of Human Neural Progenitors to Astrocytes

(2009) Katarzyna M. Wilczynska et al.   STEM CELLS

Immune or inflammatory response by the host brain suppresses neuronal differentiation of transplanted ES cell–derived neural precursor cells

(2008) Makoto Ideguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Expression of Disabled 1 suppresses astroglial differentiation in neural stem cells

(2008) Il-Sun Kwon et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE

Neuregulin 1 in neural development, synaptic plasticity and schizophrenia

(2008) Lin Mei et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE