Top, bar graph reporting the mean size of the labelled astrocyte syncytium (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The GRPs the scientists used began life as what's called astrocyte progenitor cells from healthy rat spinal cord tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The chemical message is passing from one astrocyte to the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind] Reference

Neoplasms of the brain that originate in a particular kind of glial-cells: the star-shaped brain cells called astrocyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Chaff - Greg Egan] Reference

Image: distinct astrocyte domains revealed in an image from the freely available selection in the Cell Centered Database.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Selective inhibition or stimulation of astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Note the absence of astrocyte responses after BAPTA (t3).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Selective astrocyte activation favours focal ictal discharges.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

This experimental approach allowed us to define the timing of astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

These data demonstrate that experimental manipulations of the astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Then, he postulated an increase in astrocyte numbers as responsible for causing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autism Hub] Reference

(WT) or HD94 mice (HD) grown on wild-type rat astrocyte monolayers, analyzed as in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

(MAP) 2-positive neurons, and inhibits astrocyte generation and/or differentiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Single NMDA pulses applied simultaneously to both pipettes evoke a large astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The OGD astrocyte medium significantly decreased neurite branch number and total length.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Immunohistochemical localization of the astrocyte marker, glial fibrillary acidic protein.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Thus, astrocyte activation is not an absolute requirement for ictal discharge generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

We next investigated astrocyte activities during the development of focal ictal discharges.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

These are the probabilities for each ictal to be independent from the astrocyte activation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

BAPTA-containing astrocyte syncytium in field B does not impair ictal discharge generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

A double NMDA pulse evoked both astrocyte activation and the ictal discharge after inhibitor washout.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The calcium waves arose only after the researchers added Amyloid beta peptides to the astrocyte cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Most importantly, the early astrocyte activation was a crucial step in the generation of ictal discharges.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

In the guinea pig brain, astrocytes were identified using the astrocyte-specific marker sulforhodamine 101.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Note that at the beginning of the video there is an interictal discharge that activates only one astrocyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The NMDA stimulation that can evoke an ictal discharge becomes ineffective after inhibition of the astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

However, mechanisms other than mGlu and P2 receptor activation may be also involved in this astrocyte response.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Our finding that the duration of the ictal discharges was significantly reduced upon inhibition of the astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

H (2007) Rapid astrocyte calcium signals correlate with neuronal activity and onset of the hemodynamic response in vivo.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The present study reveals a crucial role of neuron-astrocyte interactions in sculpting activity at the epileptogenic zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

"Our findings demonstrate that astrocyte replacement, by transplantation, is both possible and useful," Maragakis explains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

This neuron-astrocyte interaction may represent a novel target to develop effective therapeutic strategies to control seizures.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

As a mean, astrocyte activation in field A occurred 4. 8±1.1 s before field B neurons were recruited into the ictal discharge.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

As revealed by results from both BAPTA and MPEP/PPADS experiments, when the astrocyte contribution was reduced by inhibiting Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

In the 4-AP model, single NMDA pulses evoke the ictal discharge only when an astrocyte Ca doi: 10.1371/journal. pbio.1000352.g008.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

In conditions of enhanced excitability, this astrocyte feedback signal drives neurons towards the seizure-like discharge threshold.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

To induce local astrocyte inhibition, we applied pressure pulses of 2 s per 5 min at a frequency of 0.1 Hz to a pipette containing MPEP.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

• Highly relevant experience in the neuronal/cortical/astrocyte cell culture, confocal microscopy, lentivirus work, calcium imaging and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Noteworthy, GFAP-negative PAR-1 puncta appeared in continuity with distal portions of astrocyte processes, where GFAP is barely expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

The single NMDA pulse fails to activate astrocytes (red and blue traces, left), whereas the double NMDA pulse evokes a large astrocyte Ca.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference