This initiative celebrates the journal's anniversary by highlighting influential areas of research and promoting discussion on recent advances in astrocyte biology, specifically their significant role ...

Astrocytes are the largest and most prevalent type of glial cell in the central nervous system. Astrocytes contribute to formation of the blood–brain barrier, participate in the maintenance of ...

Many previous studies have uncovered the potential role of astrocyte gap junctions in PD regulation, but most of them have focused on connexins (Freitas-Andrade and Naus, 2016; Ahmadian et al., 2019).

However, whether a single astrocyte may release different gliotransmitters is unknown. Here we show that mouse hippocampal astrocytes activated by endogenous (neuron-released endocannabinoids or GABA) ...