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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2022

Astrocytes in Neurodegeneration: Inspiration From Genetics.

Jingxuan Huang, Chunyu Li, Huifang Shang

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Astrocytes as Therapeutic Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  6. Association between metabolic syndrome, its individual components and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  12. Identifying and Diagnosing TDP-43 Neurodegenerative Diseases in Psychiatry.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jingxuan HuangLaboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Neurology, Rare Diseases Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Chunyu LiLaboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Neurology, Rare Diseases Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Huifang ShangLaboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, Department of Neurology, Rare Diseases Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the discovery of numerous molecules and pathologies, the pathophysiology of various neurodegenerative diseases remains unknown. Genetics participates in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration. Neural dysfunction, which is thought to be a cell-autonomous mechanism, is insufficient to explain the development of neurodegenerative disease, implying that other cells surrounding or related to neurons, such as glial cells, are involved in the pathogenesis. As the primary component of glial cells, astrocytes play a variety of roles in the maintenance of physiological functions in neurons and other glial cells. The pathophysiology of neurodegeneration is also influenced by reactive astrogliosis in response to central nervous system (CNS) injuries. Furthermore, those risk-gene variants identified in neurodegenerations are involved in astrocyte activation and senescence. In this review, we summarized the relationships between gene variants and astrocytes in four neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Parkinson's disease (PD), and provided insights into the implications of astrocytes in the neurodegenerations.

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PMID35812232
PMCPMC9268899

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