Astrocytes: Tailored to Support the Demand of Neural Circuits?

Affiliations

¹ The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
² Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA; Center for Basic and Translational Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. Electronic address: andrew_samson@urmc.rochester.edu.

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Rune Rasmussen et al. Cell Syst. 2017.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.09.008.

¹ The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
² Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA; Center for Basic and Translational Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. Electronic address: andrew_samson@urmc.rochester.edu.

Abstract

Anatomy, physiology, proteomics, and genomics reveal the prospect of distinct highly specialized astrocyte subtypes within neural circuits.

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