Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease is the last and all people speak about glia, but and astrocytes?

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Astrocytes are the supportive cells inside the brain, but now we start to discover many other function, such as they clean the brain at night, they control sinapsis, etc.

Soraya L. Valles

One question will be which kind of proteins are expressing astrocytes in AD. The epigenetic of the genes expressed in astrocytes. do you think astrocytes are playing an important role in AD or not?

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