“Targeting astrocytes in CNS injury and disease: A translational research approach”

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 144, Issue , 2016, Pages 173-187

  Filous, Angela R ^a   Silver, Jerry ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Astrogliosis; BBB; Disease; GFAP; Glial scar; Heterogeneity; Proteoglycan; SCI; Therapeutics; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL REGENERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; EPILEPSY; EXCITOTOXICITY; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; OLIGODENDROCYTE PROGENITOR; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84964587151     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: 18735118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2016.03.009     Document Type: Review

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