Astrocyte Depletion Impairs Redox Homeostasis and Triggers Neuronal Loss in the Adult CNS

Cell Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1377-1384

  Schreiner, Bettina ^a,b   Romanelli, Elisa ^c   Liberski, Pawel ^d   Ingold Heppner, Barbara ^e   Sobottka Brillout, Bettina ^a,f   Hartwig, Tom ^a   Chandrasekar, Vijay ^g   Johannssen, Helge ^a   Zeilhofer, Hanns Ulrich ^a,h   Aguzzi, Adriano ^g   Heppner, Frank ^e   Kerschensteiner, Martin ^c,i   Becher, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; ANTIOXIDANT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTIC PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOSIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL DEATH; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84940795878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.07.051     Document Type: Article

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