Astrocytes Reassessment - an Evolving Concept Part One: Embryology, Biology, Morphology and Reactivity

Overview

Journal J Mol Psychiatry

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2015 May 29

PMID 26019866

Citations 10

Authors

Alina Simona Sovrea

Adina Bianca Bosca

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Abstract

The goal of this review is to integrate - in its two parts - the considerable amount of information that has accumulated during these recent years over the morphology, biology and functions of astrocytes - first part - and to illustrate the active role of these cells in pathophysiological processes implicated in various psychiatric and neurologic disorders - second part.

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