Activation of hypothalamic astrocytes suppresses feeding without altering emotional states.

abstract：:We characterized morphological effects of the endogenous excitotoxin, glutamate in ex vivo retinal segments prepared from 30-day-old rats. Initial changes induced by glutamate consisted of reversible, sodium-dependent Müller cell swelling. This glial swelling was mimicked by glutamate transport substrates but not by i...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Izumi Y,Kirby CO,Benz AM,Olney JW,Zorumski CF

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a critical relationship between oligodendrocyte development, myelin production, and iron bioavailability. Iron deficiency leads to hypomyelination both in humans and animal models, and the neurological sequelae of hypomyelination are significant. Therefore, understanding molecular mechanisms of iron import in...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Todorich B,Zhang X,Connor JR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines and their receptors play a decisive role in tumor progression and metastasis. Here, we describe the expression of the CXCL16-CXCR6-system in human schwannomas of different localization and in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. The transmembrane chemokine CXCL16 and its receptor CXCR6/Bonzo were overe...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Held-Feindt J,Rehmke B,Mentlein R,Hattermann K,Knerlich F,Hugo HH,Ludwig A,Mehdorn HM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a deadly neurodegenerative disease often caused by mutation in a gene called NPC1, which results in the accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and glycosphingolipids in the endosomal-lysosomal system. Most studies on the mechanisms of neurodegeneration in NPC have focused on neur...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Chen G,Li HM,Chen YR,Gu XS,Duan S

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adult mammalian brain, neurogenesis originates from astrocyte-like stem cells. We generated a transgenic mouse line in which the tetracycline dependent transactivator (tTA) is expressed under the control of the murine GFAP promoter. In this mouse line, inducible gene expression targets virtually all GFAP-expres...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Weber T,Baier V,Pauly R,Sahay A,Baur M,Herrmann E,Ciccolini F,Hen R,Kronenberg G,Bartsch D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury to the adult brain results in the formation of a glial scar that involves both activated astroglia and microglia/macrophages. Although reactive gliosis has been linked to failure of axonal regeneration in the adult mammalian CNS, the spatio-temporal pattern of the postlesion responses in morphology and distribu...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Stichel CC,Müller HW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) is a potent and broadly acting neurotrophic factor that protects neurons in various types of cultured neurons against glutamate excitotoxicity and induced-apoptosis. Some of the effects of PEDF reflect specific changes in gene expression, mediated via activation of the transcri...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Yabe T,Sanagi T,Schwartz JP,Yamada H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaque deposition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is known to decrease proliferation in neurogenic niches in AD mouse models, but the effects on cell proliferation and differentiation in other brain areas have not been studied in detail. We analyzed cell proliferation in the cortex of wild type (WT) and APPswePS1dE9 trans...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Kamphuis W,Orre M,Kooijman L,Dahmen M,Hol EM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pro-apoptotic sphingolipid ceramide plays an emergent role in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), although its function for neurodegeneration is not known. We determined the concentration and composition of ceramide in hippocampal tissue from newborn presenilin 1 (PS1) knock-in (PS1M146V) mice, a mouse model...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Wang G,Silva J,Dasgupta S,Bieberich E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interface between the blood and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is formed by the choroid plexuses (CPs), which are specialized structures located within the brain ventricles. They are composed of a vascularized stroma surrounded by a tight epithelium that controls molecular and cellular traffic between the blood and...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Nataf S,Strazielle N,Hatterer E,Mouchiroud G,Belin MF,Ghersi-Egea JF

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel method of isolating and culturing murine colonic mucosal glial cells. Two morphologies are appreciated, a small flat bi or tri polar cell and a larger multipolar cell. The glial cultures have been freed of contaminating fibroblasts and epithelial cells and have been passaged by trypsinization...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Bernstein CN,Vidrich A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal signals activate myelinogenesis via regulation of the extent to which oligodendrocyte (OLG) processes wrap around the axon. The cytoskeleton in OLG processes is actively involved in myelination and is a putative target for axonal regulation of myelination. The axon-associated neuregulins may regulate the cytosk...

journal_title：Glia

authors： LoPresti P,Muma NA,De Vries GH

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammalian brain peripheral benzodiazepine (PBZD) receptors are predominantly localized on astroglial cells. Previous studies utilizing whole membrane preparations from brain and peripheral organs of various species have indicated several distinctions between the drug-receptor interactions of the two prototypic PBZD...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Itzhak Y,Baker L,Norenberg MD

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial tumor cells derived from primary tissue express large voltage-gated Na(+) currents, whereas glioma cell lines usually lack this feature. We studied the effect of serum deprivation on the expression of Na(+) currents in two astrocytoma cell lines (1321N1 and A172). Serum deprivation for more than 2 days sufficed ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Kraft R,Basrai D,Benndorf K,Patt S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormonal and locally produced steroids act in the nervous system as neuroendocrine regulators, as trophic factors and as neuromodulators and have a major impact on neural development and function. Glial cells play a prominent role in the local production of steroids and in the mediation of steroid effects on neurons a...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Garcia-Segura LM,Melcangi RC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water balance between cells and extracellular compartments is essential for proper functioning of the central nervous system, as demonstrated by its perturbations in pathological conditions. Aquaporin 4 (AQP4) is the predominant water channel in brain and spinal cord, where it is present mainly on astrocytic endfeet c...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Vitellaro-Zuccarello L,Mazzetti S,Bosisio P,Monti C,De Biasi S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the glial fibrillary acidic protein gene (GFAP) is of interest because of its astrocyte specificity and its upregulation in response to CNS injuries. We have used a transgenic approach instead of cell transfection to identify promoter elements of the human GFAP gene, since previous observ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Yeo S,Bandyopadhyay S,Messing A,Brenner M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are candidates for therapeutic approaches for neural regeneration due to their ability to assist axon regrowth in central nervous system lesion models. However, little is understood about the processes and mechanisms underlying migration of these cells. We report here that novel lame...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Windus LC,Claxton C,Allen CL,Key B,St John JA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of isolated neurons to monolayers of cultured astrocytes induced a morphological change in the astrocytes that came into contact with the added neuronal cell bodies or neurites. The change, which included an increase in the complexity of cell shape, took at least 3 days to become detectable and was enhanc...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Matsutani S,Yamamoto N

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactosylceramide (GalC) and its sulfated analogue, sulfatide, are major galactosphingolipid components of myelin and oligodendrocyte plasma membranes in the nervous system. We previously hypothesized that these galactolipids play functional roles in the regulation of oligodendrocyte terminal differentiation by actin...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Hirahara Y,Bansal R,Honke K,Ikenaka K,Wada Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial glia are neural stem cells that exist only transiently during central nervous system (CNS) development, where they serve as scaffolds for neuronal migration. Their instability makes them difficult to study, and therefore we have isolated stabilized radial glial clones from E14.5 cortical progenitors (e.g., L2.3...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Li H,Chang YW,Mohan K,Su HW,Ricupero CL,Baridi A,Hart RP,Grumet M

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that switching of the alpha v-associated beta1 and beta5 integrin subunits during differentiation of myelin-forming oligodendrocytes may regulate important aspects of cell behaviour such as migration (Milner et al., 1996: J Neurosci 16:7240-7252). In this study we have examined the development...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Milner R,Frost E,Nishimura S,Delcommenne M,Streuli C,Pytela R,Ffrench-Constant C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) and its receptor TrkC are known to be important for neuronal survival. More recently, NT-3 has been implicated as playing a role in oligodendrocyte (OL) proliferation and survival in vitro. Examination of NT-3 and TrkC knockout mice revealed a reduction in NT-3-dependent neurons. To date, no stud...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Kahn MA,Kumar S,Liebl D,Chang R,Parada LF,De Vellis J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that Nkx6.2/Gtx and Nkx2.2 homeodomain transcription factors are involved in the regulation of oligodendrocyte maturation and/or myelination which occur predominantly in postnatal stages. However, their cellular specificity in postnatal central nervous system has not been characterized an...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Cai J,Zhu Q,Zheng K,Li H,Qi Y,Cao Q,Qiu M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resident microglia of the rat CNS express a unique type of keratan sulfate immunoreactivity (KS-IR) that is lacking on peripheral monocytes/macrophages and associated with a so far unknown proteoglycan core protein. Microglial KS-IR is downregulated during T-cell-mediated autoimmune inflammation but largely preserved ...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Jander S,Schroeter M,Fischer J,Stoll G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are the most numerous cell type in the central nervous system. When cultured, these cells express a wide variety of receptors for neurotransmitters. Nonetheless, it has yet to be firmly established that adult astrocytes in situ express receptors for neurotransmitters. In this report the technique of combine...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Salm AK,McCarthy KD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors 7 (TLR7) and 9 (TLR9) are important mediators of innate immune responses. Both receptors are located in endosomal compartments, recognize nucleic acids, and signal via Myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88). In the current study, we analyzed TLR7 and TLR9 induced activation of astrocytes and mic...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Butchi NB,Du M,Peterson KE

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A widely quoted hypothesis for the failure of remyelination in multiple sclerosis (MS) is the exhaustion of the oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) pool that is strongly implicated as the source of remyelinating oligodendrocytes in demyelinating lesions. Despite this, little is known about the responses of adult OPC...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Chari DM,Blakemore WF

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannose receptor is a pattern-recognition receptor involved in innate and adaptive immunity. The receptor is mainly expressed by macrophages and, within the brain, by astrocytes and microglia. This study reports for the first time the effects of two classical proinflammatory (interferon-gamma, IFNgamma) and anti-i...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Zimmer H,Riese S,Régnier-Vigouroux A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelins are potent vasoactive peptides that bind to their specific receptors, playing an important role in the CNS under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Astrocytes, which have been shown to express these receptors, also have a considerable role to play under physiological and pathophysiological co...

journal_title：Glia

authors： Shibaguchi H,Himeno A,Shigematsu K,Kataoka Y,Niwa M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00