Activating the astrocyte ensemble specifically stimulates synaptic activity or communication in the corresponding neuron engram. This astrocyte-neuron communication flows both ways; astrocytes and ...

Any injury of the brain produces a widespread alteration in astrocyte phenotype called reactive gliosis ... every cell in the brain that is not a neuron be called a glial cell?

Much less is known about the non-neuron cells in the brain ... "We want to see if astrocytes can be transformed to become ...