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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 85, Issue -, Pages 254-261Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2015.03.025
Keywords
Neuroglia; Astrocyte; Reactive astrogliosis; Neurological diseases; Hepatic encephalopathy; Psychiatric diseases; Neurodegeneration
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- Alzheimer's Research Trust (UK) Programme Grant [ART/PG2004A/1]
- National Institutes of Health (The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development award) [HD078678]
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R21HD078678] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Astroglial cells represent a main element in the maintenance of homeostasis and providing defense to the brain. Consequently, their dysfunction underlies many, if not all, neurological, neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. General astrogliopathy is evident in diametrically opposing morpho-functional changes in astrocytes, i.e. their hypertrophy along with reactivity or atrophy with asthenia. Neurological disorders with astroglial participation can be genetic, of which Alexander disease is a primary sporadic astrogliopathy, environmentally caused, such as heavy metal encephalopathies, or neurodevelopmental in origin. Astroglia contribute to neurodegenerative processes seen in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. Furthermore, astroglia also play a role in major neuropsychiatric disorders, ranging from schizophrenia to depression, as well as in addictive disorders. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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