Astrocytes reassessment - an evolving concept part one: embryology, biology, morphology and reactivity

Journal of Molecular Psychiatry

Adina Bianca Boşca¹  Alina Simona Şovrea¹ 

[1] Discipline of Histology, Department of Morphological Sciences, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

关键词: Therapeutic targets;    Molecular mechanisms;    Reactive astrogliosis;    Astrocytes;   

Others  :  819973
DOI  :  10.1186/2049-9256-1-18

 received in 2013-06-07, accepted in 2013-08-05,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Şovrea and Boşca; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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