A new platform for screening astrocyte reactivity helps researchers uncover potential therapeutic interventions to treat neurodegenerative conditions. Led by postdoctoral researcher Benjamin Clayton, ...

As neuronal supporters and immune surveyors, astrocytes and microglia are no mere bystanders to the neuronal mayhem that unfolds in Alzheimer’s disease. At the AD/PD meeting, held March 5-9 in Lisbon, ...

The goal of my research program is to define the molecular mechanisms that regulate how glial cells take on harmful or beneficial cell states in health and disease. I am particularly interested in how ...

Move over, amyloid, reactive astrocytes and activated microglia may be the main drivers of the Alzheimer’s disease pathological cascade. In the November 6 Nature Neuroscience, scientists led by Pedro ...

A Korean research team has successfully proposed a new cause for the onset of dementia, a condition that has been difficult to treat and prevent due to its previously unknown origins. This discovery ...

The potential effects of astrocyte dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases are summarized in Figure 2. AD is characterized clinically by cognitive loss in two or more domains, including memory, ...

When the brain is injured in some way, a wide range of biochemical changes are triggered that can affect crucial brain cells known as astrocytes. They are a type of glial cell, and brain injuries ...

A study published in Ageing Research Reviews and led by MA Yinzhong's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences provided an integrated ...

Much of the brain is made up of a constellation of star-shaped cells called astrocytes, which play vital roles in immunity, neuron maintenance and many other functions. In Alzheimer’s disease, some ...