Neuroglia in the Aging Brain Book

Part I. Cellular and Molecular Changes of Aged and Reactive Astrocytes

Neuromorphological Changes in Neuronal and Neuroglial Populations of the Cerebral Cortex in the Aging Rat: Neurochemical Correlations

Maria Angeles Peinado, Manuel Martinez, Maria Jesus Ramirez, Adoracion Quesada, Juan Angel Pedrosa, Concepcion Iribar, and Jose Maria Peinado

Diversity in Reactive Astrocytes

Sudarshan K. Malhotra and Theodor K. Shnitka

Astrocytic Reaction After Traumatic Brain Injury

Jes&u's Boya, J. L. Calvo, Angel López-Carbonell, and José E. García-Mauriño

Part II. Neuron-Glia Intercommunication

Astrocytes In Situ Exhibit Functional Neurotransmitter Receptors

Marilee K. Shelton and Ken D. McCarthy

Glia and Extracellular Space Diffusion Parameters in the Injured and Aging Brain

Eva Syková

Intercellular Diffusional Coupling between Glial Cells in Slices from the Striatum

Brigitte Hamon, Jacques Glowinski, and Christian Giaume

Glial Cell Involvement in Brain Repair and the Effects of Aging

Elizabeth A. Howes and Peter J. S. Smith

ATP Signaling in Schwann Cells

Thierry Amédée, Aurore Colomar, and Jonathan A. Coles

Part III. Neurotrophins, Growth Factors, and Neurohormones in Aging and Regeneration

Gliosis Growth Factors in the Adult and Aging Rat Brain

Gérard Labourdette and Françoise Eclancher

Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 in Astrogliosis

John F. Reilly

Trophins as Mediators of Astrocyte Effects in the Aging and Regenerating Brain

Judith Lackland and Cheryl F. Dreyfus

Responses in the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System to Aging

Zezong Gu and J. Regino Perez-Polo

Effects of Estrogens and Thyroid Hormone on Development and Aging of Astrocytes and Oligodendrocytes

Kevin Higashigawa, Alisa Seo, Nayan Sheth, Giorgios Tsianos, Hogan Shy, Latha Malaiyandi, and Paola S. Timiras

Part IV. Metabolic Changes

Neurotoxic Injury and Astrocytes

Michael Aschner and Richard M. LoPachin

Ammonium Ion Transport in Astrocytes: Functional Implications

Neville Brookes

Part V. Astrocytes and the Blood-Brain Barrier in Aging

Molecular Anatomy of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Development and Aging

Dorothee Krause, Pedro M. Faustmann, and Rolf Dermietzel

The Blood-Brain Barrier in the Aging Brain

Gesa Rascher and Hartwig Wolburg

Astrocytes and Barrier-provided Microvasculature in the Developing Brain

Luisa Roncali

Part VI. Astrocytes in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Microglial and Astrocytic Reactions in Alzheimer's Disease

Douglas G. Walker and Thomas G. Beach

Activated Neuroglia in Alzheimer's Disease

Kurt R. Brunden and Robert C. A. Frederickson

Reactive Astroglia in the Ataxic Form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Cytology and Organization in the Cerebellar Cortex

Miguel Lafarga, Nuria T. Villagra, and Maria T. Berciano

Ischemic Injury, Astrocytes, and the Aging Brain

Robert Fern

Glial-Neuronal Interactions during Oxidative Stress: Implications for Parkinson's Disease

Catherine Mytilineou

Astrocytic Changes Associated with Epileptic Seizures

Angélique Bordey and Harald Sontheimer

Synaptic and Neuroglial Pathobiology in Acute and Chronic Neurological Disorders

Lee J. Martin

Astrocytes and Ammonia in Hepatic Encephalopathy

Michael D. Norenberg