Glia: Guardians, gluttons, or guides for the maintenance of neuronal connectivity?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1351, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Jebelli, Joseph ^a   Su, Wei ^a   Hopkins, Stephanie ^a   Pocock, Jennifer ^b   Garden, Gwenn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glia; Neurodegeneration; Synapse

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL INTERACTION; CONNECTOME; GLIA; HUMAN; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYNAPSE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CELL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ASTROCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; MYELIN SHEATH; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84941808521     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12711     Document Type: Article

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