Avtor/Urednik     Verkhratsky, Alexei; Zorec, Robert
Naslov     Astroglial signalling in health and disease
Tip     članek
Vol. in št.     , št. Vol.
Leto izdaje     2018
Obseg     str. str.
ISSN     0304-3940 - Neuroscience letters
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Astrocytes, the neural homeostatic cells, play a key role in the information processing in the central nervous system. They express multiple receptors which respond to a number of chemical messengers and get excited as evidenced by an increase in second messengers in short and delayed time domains. Astrocytes secrete numerous neuroactive agents and mount various homeostatic responses. These signal integrating functions are key factors of neuropathology (better termed astroneuropathology): they provide for neuroprotection through both homeostatic support and astroglial reactivity; failure in astroglial defensive or supporting capabilities facilitates evolution of neurological disorders.
Proste vsebinske oznake     astrocytes
synaptic transmission
calcium
astrociti
sinaptični prenos
kalcij