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Astrocytes in Migration

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Cell migration is a fundamental phenomenon that underlies tissue morphogenesis, wound healing, immune response, and cancer metastasis. Great progresses have been made in research methodologies, with cell migration identified as a highly orchestrated process. Brain is considered the most complex organ in the human body, containing many types of neural cells with astrocytes playing crucial roles in monitoring normal functions of the central nervous system. Astrocytes are mostly quiescent under normal physiological conditions in the adult brain but become migratory after injury. Under most known pathological conditions in the brain, spinal cord and retina, astrocytes are activated and become hypertrophic, hyperplastic, and up-regulating GFAP based on the grades of severity. These three observations are the hallmark in glia scar formation—astrogliosis. The reactivation process is initiated with structural changes involving cell process migration and ended with cell migration. Detailed mechanisms in astrocyte migration have not been studied extensively and remain largely unknown. Here, we therefore attempt to review the mechanisms in migration of astrocytes.

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This work was supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7091004); the National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) (2011CB504400); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870818, 31070974, 31171009 and 81471253); the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81221002).

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  1. Laboratory for Functional Study of Astrocytes, Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, 38 Xue Yuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China

    Jiang Shan Zhan, Kai Gao, Rui Chao Chai, Xi Hua Jia, Dao Peng Luo, Guo Ge, Yin-wan Wendy Fung, Lina Li & Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

  2. Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Jiang Shan Zhan, Kai Gao, Rui Chao Chai, Xi Hua Jia, Dao Peng Luo, Guo Ge, Yin-wan Wendy Fung, Lina Li & Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

  3. Key Laboratory for Neuroscience, Ministry of Education, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, 100191, China

    Jiang Shan Zhan, Kai Gao, Rui Chao Chai, Xi Hua Jia, Dao Peng Luo, Guo Ge, Yin-wan Wendy Fung, Lina Li & Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China

    Kai Gao & Yu Wu Jiang

  5. Laboratory of Translational Medicine, Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

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    Rui Chao Chai, Xi Hua Jia, Yin-wan Wendy Fung, Lina Li & Albert Cheung Hoi Yu

  7. Department of Human Anatomy, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New Area, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China

    Dao Peng Luo & Guo Ge

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Zhan, J.S., Gao, K., Chai, R.C. et al. Astrocytes in Migration. Neurochem Res 42, 272–282 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-016-2089-4

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