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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2019

Astrocytes in Neuropathologies Affecting the Frontal Cortex.

Ulla-Kaisa Peteri, Mikael Niukkanen, Maija L Castrén

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Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Functions of Astrocytes under Normal Conditions and after a Brain Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  16. Chronic Stress Alters Astrocyte Morphology in Mouse Prefrontal Cortex.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ulla-Kaisa PeteriDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Mikael NiukkanenDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Maija L CastrénDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To an increasing extent, astrocytes are connected with various neuropathologies. Astrocytes comprise of a heterogeneous population of cells with region- and species-specific properties. The frontal cortex exhibits high levels of plasticity that is required for high cognitive functions and memory making this region especially susceptible to damage. Aberrations in the frontal cortex are involved with several cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide an alternative for disease modeling and offer possibilities for studies to investigate pathological mechanisms in a cell type-specific manner. Patient-specific iPSC-derived astrocytes have been shown to recapitulate several disease phenotypes. Addressing astrocyte heterogeneity may provide an improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseastrocytefrontal cortexfrontotemporal dementiaHuntington’s diseaseinduced pluripotent stem cellsneurodegeneration

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PMID30809131
PMCPMC6379461

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