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 ...

Interestingly, mice lacking glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an astrocyte-specific intermediate filament, demonstrate impaired optic nerve myelination, implicating the importance of astrocyte ...

While astrocytes can use stored glycogen to temporarily ... "We first carried out simple ex vivo experiments by isolating the ...