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Dr. Norenberg on "Why the Brain Fails when the Astrocyte Ails"
The University of Miami's Michael Norenberg is currently talking about the functions and physiology of astrocytes...
Astrocytes & Blood Brain Barrier
Testing/Evaluations Rapidly Evolve With New Technology – Astrocytes Matter
Those of you who closely follow CorePsych Blog and the many frustrated... 
The brain consists of two major cell types: neurons, which transmit information, and glial cells, which support and protect neurons. Interestingly, evidence suggests that some glial cells, including astroglia, can be direct
cytokines and chemokines as well as microglia and astrocytic activation in the brains of 11 autistics... and astrocytes, also becomes activated. The microglia normally remain in a quiescent state called ramified... 
astrocytes are also ketogenic cells. These findings support the notion that ketone bodies produced by astrocytes may be used in situ as substrates for neuronal metabolism, and raise the possibility...
of Rochester Medical Center, gives an unexpected nod to a role for adenosine and to cells called astrocytes... evoke those other cells - astrocytes - in the area immediately around the surgery to release ATP...
diet and astrocyte/neuron metabolic interactions." Okay, I know what a ketogenic diet is (one... like something to do with the brain. I didn't have a clue what an astrocyte was until I looked it up on Wikipedia...
that creating higher levels of IL-1β in cells called astrocytes in the spinal cord caused more osteoarthritic symptoms in joints. Past studies had shown astrocytes, non-nerve cells (glia) in the central nervous system... 
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They found that reduced oxygen levels can affect brain cells called astrocytes, which normally clean up excess amounts of a neurotransmitter called glutamate. But a lack of oxygen decreases the ability of astrocytes to carry out this task...
differentiation of astrocytes, and subsequent autoimmune response to neurofilaments and astroglial glucose.... Over-expression of these genes results in a change in the structural differentiation of astrocytes... 
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