astrocytes

[Science of the Total Environment] The authors identified that cadmium exposure specifically induced apoptosis in neurons and inhibited the proliferation of neural progenitor cells, but neural differentiation was not significantly affected in cerebral organoids.

[Biomaterials] Mouse and porcine retinas were decellularized and the protein profile analyzed. Acellular retinal extracellular matrix scaffolds were then repopulated with human iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells or ocular progenitor cells to assess their integration, proliferation and organization.

[Journal of Experimental Medicine] Scientists review the interactions between immune cells and astrocytes and their roles in health and neurological diseases, with a special focus on multiple sclerosis.

[Communications Biology] The authors demonstrated that astrocyte-like-cells could be derived from adult human gingiva mesenchymal stem cells and used for Tissue-Engineered-rostral migratory stream fabrication.

[Scientific Reports] Scientists demonstrated that tunneling nanotubes structures were induced between glioblastoma cells and surrounding non-tumor astrocytes to transfer tumor-derived mitochondria.

[Nature] Astrocytes produced IL-3, which elicited transcriptional, morphological, and functional programming of microglia to endow them with an acute immune response program, enhanced motility, and the capacity to cluster and clear aggregates of Aβ and tau.