Astrocytes are a cell type that is abundant in the brain and has many different functions. They interact with neurons and a lot of genes that are critical for these interactions have been implicated in many psychiatric neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. So in a collaboration with Lin...
Many different types of cells work together in the brain. In humans, nerve cells (neurons) make up less than half of the cells. The rest are called "glia." The most common glial cells are astrocytes. They supply the neurons with nutrients, form part of the blood-brain barrier, regulate ...
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These grow in star-shaped cells called astrocytes in thebrainand spinal cord. They belong to a group of tumors called gliomas. All gliomas grow from “glial cells,” which support and protect your nerve fibers. Some astrocytomas grow very slowly. Others grow more quickly. When the tumor press...
Finally, we examine how changes in curvature can influence transcriptional regulation through a reorganization of cytoskeletal forces acting on the nucleus, thereby facilitating the development of specific human diseases. Key points Cells interact with the curved surfaces of many organs and, at a lower...
To that end, we extensively describe a variety of studies involving topics such as neurodevelopment, aging, stress, memory and homeostatic plasticity to highlight how the weakening and disconnection of synapses organically permeate the brain in so many ways as a good practice of its intrinsic ...
Dopamine is well recognized as a neurotransmitter in the brain, and regulates critical functions in a variety of peripheral systems. Growing research has also shown that dopamine acts as an important regulator of immune function. Many immune cells express dopamine receptors and other dopamine related ...
It would seem very strange if all this richness of additional temporal structure is not part of the way we evaluate where things are around us and how things are going to happen,” Jazayeri says. There are many other sensory processing tasks for which the brain uses multiple sources of input...
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Pretty much everything happening in the brain would fail without astrocytes. These star-shaped glial cells are known to have a critical role in synapse creation, nervous tissue repair, and the formation of the blood-brain barrier. But while we have decad