One of the most important metabolic links between neurons and astrocytes, however, is the glutamate–glutamine shuttle. Astrocytes transport the vast majority of extracellular glutamate ...

This review considers the role that optic nerve head astrocytes might play in the initiation of axon damage, based on the hypothesis that these cells are sensitive to mechanical or ischaemic ...

Some examples of mouse models in which astrocyte protein function is altered are detailed in Table 1. In addition to cellular hypertrophy and upregulation of specific genes associated with ...

Astrocytes from both groups had deficits in glutamate signaling. The cool part is what happened next: When they exposed astrocytes to clozapine, glutamate signaling normalized—but only in the ...