 Astrocytes
"Astrocytes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of large neuroglial (macroglial) cells in the central nervous system - the largest and most numerous neuroglial cells in the brain and spinal cord. Astrocytes (from "star" cells) are irregularly shaped with many long processes, including those with "end feet" which form the glial (limiting) membrane and directly and indirectly contribute to the BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER. They regulate the extracellular ionic and chemical environment, and "reactive astrocytes" (along with MICROGLIA) respond to injury.
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D001253
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A08.637.200 A11.650.200
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Astrocytes" by people in Profiles.
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Du F, Yuelling L, Lee EH, Wang Y, Liao S, Cheng Y, Zhang L, Zheng C, Peri S, Cai KQ, Ng JMY, Curran T, Li P, Yang ZJ. Leukotriene Synthesis Is Critical for Medulloblastoma Progression. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 11 01; 25(21):6475-6486.
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Liu Y, Yuelling LW, Wang Y, Du F, Gordon RE, O'Brien JA, Ng JMY, Robins S, Lee EH, Liu H, Curran T, Yang ZJ. Astrocytes Promote Medulloblastoma Progression through Hedgehog Secretion. Cancer Res. 2017 12 01; 77(23):6692-6703.
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Yang FC, Riordan SM, Winter M, Gan L, Smith PG, Vivian JL, Shapiro SM, Stanford JA. Fate of Neural Progenitor Cells Transplanted Into Jaundiced and Nonjaundiced Rat Brains. Cell Transplant. 2017 04 13; 26(4):605-611.
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Fung C, Ke X, Brown AS, Yu X, McKnight RA, Lane RH. Uteroplacental insufficiency alters rat hippocampal cellular phenotype in conjunction with ErbB receptor expression. Pediatr Res. 2012 Jul; 72(1):2-9.
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Miao H, Chen L, Riordan SM, Li W, Juarez S, Crabb AM, Lukas TJ, Du P, Lin SM, Wise A, Agapova OA, Yang P, Gu CC, Hernandez MR. Gene expression and functional studies of the optic nerve head astrocyte transcriptome from normal African Americans and Caucasian Americans donors. PLoS One. 2008 Aug 06; 3(8):e2847.
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Lukas TJ, Miao H, Chen L, Riordan SM, Li W, Crabb AM, Wise A, Du P, Lin SM, Hernandez MR. Susceptibility to glaucoma: differential comparison of the astrocyte transcriptome from glaucomatous African American and Caucasian American donors. Genome Biol. 2008; 9(7):R111.
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Ke Y, Zhang EE, Hagihara K, Wu D, Pang Y, Klein R, Curran T, Ranscht B, Feng GS. Deletion of Shp2 in the brain leads to defective proliferation and differentiation in neural stem cells and early postnatal lethality. Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Oct; 27(19):6706-17.
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Soltysik-Espanola M, Rogers RA, Jiang S, Kim TA, Gaedigk R, White RA, Avraham H, Avraham S. Characterization of Mayven, a novel actin-binding protein predominantly expressed in brain. Mol Biol Cell. 1999 Jul; 10(7):2361-75.
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