Avtor/Urednik     Zeidán-Chuliá, Fares; Salmina, Alla B.; Malinovskaya, Natalia A.; Noda, Mami; Verkhratsky, Alexei; Fonseca Moreira, José Cláudio
Naslov     The glial perspective of autism spectrum disorders
Tip     članek
Vol. in št.     Letnik 38
Leto izdaje     2014
Obseg     str. 160-172
ISSN     0149-7634 - Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     The aetiology of autism spectrum disorders remains unclear although a growing number of associated genetic abnormalities and environmental factors have been discovered in recent decades. These advancements coincided with a remarkable increase in the comprehension of physiological functions and pathological potential of neuroglia in the central nervous system that led to a notion of fundamental contribution of glial cells into multiple neuropathologies, including neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. Growing evidence indicates a role for deregulation of astroglial control over homeostasis and plastic potential of neural networks as well as microglial malfunction and neuroinflammatory response in the brains of autistic patients. In this review, we shall summarize the status and pathological potential of neuroglia and argue for neuroglial roots of autistic disorders.
Proste vsebinske oznake     autism
gene
environmental factors
neurone
astrocyte
oligodendrocyte
NG2 cells
microglia