The established and emerging roles of astrocytes and microglia in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia.

The established and emerging roles of astrocytes and microglia in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) are two progressive, fatal neurodegenerative syndromes with considerable clinical, genetic and pathological overlap. Clinical symptoms of FTD can be seen in ALS patients and vice versa, recent genetic discoveries conclusive link t...

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Main Authors: Rowan Andrew Warren Radford, Marco eMorsch, Stephanie Lisa Rayner, Nicholas James Cole, Dean Louis Pountney, Roger S Chung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Subjects:
Astrocytes
Frontotemporal Dementia
Microglia
Neuroinflammation
vasculature
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2015.00414/full

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