astrocytes

This new understanding could one day lead to targeted treatments. 

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Starving glioblastoma tumors of the cholesterol made by astrocytes could suppress brain cancer progression.

The University of Guelph neuroscientist is scoping out the brain regions and genes that change as a consequence of pain that lasts for months or even years.

Conversations between the immune and central nervous systems are proving to be essential for the healthy social behavior, learning, and memory.

Several routes exist for immune cells to communicate with neurons in the central nervous system, though T cells rarely come in direct contact with neural tissue.

In mice, the brain’s main glial cell type exhibits distinctive patterns of activity across the sleep-wake cycle and influences the response to sleep deprivation.

A study finds variations in the levels of proteins for some important processes among organelles from different brain cells.

After an inflammatory injury occurs in the brain, astrocytes release extracellular vesicles that travel to the liver and trigger an immune response.

Scientists confirm that astrocytes are involved in regulating molecular and behavioral circadian rhythms in mice.