SPP 1172:  The Significance of Neuroglia for the Formation, Function and Plasticity of Synapses

• Subject Area: Medicine
• Term: from 2004 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5472132

• Final Report Year: 2011

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2009) Connexin expression by radial glia-like cells is required for neurogenesis in the adult dentate gyrus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106:11336-11341
  Kunze A, Congreso MR, Hartmann C. Wallraff-Beck A, Hüttmann K, Bedner P, Requardt R, Seifert G, Redecker C, Willecke K, Hofmann A, Pfeifer A, Theis M, Steinhäuser C
  
• (2009) Neuron-glia communication via EphA4/ephrinA3 modulates glial glutamate transporter levels and synaptic plasticity. Nature Neurosci, 12:1285-1292
  Filosa A, Paixão S, Honsek SD, Carmona M, Becker L, Feddersen B, Gaitanos L, Rudhard Y, Schoepfer R, Klopstock T, Kullander K, Rose CR, Pasquale EB, Klein R
  
• (2009). Quality control of astrocyte-directed Cre transgenic mice: the benefits of a direct link between loss of gene expression and reporter activation. Glia. 57:680-692
  Requardt RP, Kaczmarczyk L, Dublin P, Wallraff-Beck A, Mikeska T, Degen J, Waha A, Steinhäuser C, Willecke K, Theis M
  
• (2010) Astrocytes are crucial for survival and maturation of embryonic hippocampal neurons in a neuron-glia cellinsert co-culture assay. Synapse (Epub ahead of print)
  yka M, Busse C, Seidenbecher C, Gundelfinger ED, Faissner A
  
• (2010) Compartmentalization from the outside: the extracellular matrix and functional microdomains in the brain. TINS 33:503- 512
  Dityatev A, Seidenbecher CI, Schachner M
  
• (2010) Contributions of astrocytes to synapse formation and maturation – Potential functions of the perisynaptic extracellular matrix. Brain Res Rev 63:26-38
  Faissner A, Pyka M, Geissler M, Sobik T, Frischknecht R, Gundelfinger ED, Seidenbecher C
  
• (2010) Ion changes and signalling in perisynaptic glia. Brain Res Reviews 63(1-2):113-29
  Deitmer JW, Rose CR
  
• (2010) Neuronal Network Formation from Reprogrammed Early Postnatal Rat Cortical Glial Cells. Cereb Cortex (Epub ahead of print)
  Blum R, Heinrich C, Sanchez R, Lepier A, Gundelfinger ED, Berninger B, Götz M
  
• (2010) Oligodendrocytes in mouse corpus callosum are coupled via gap junction channels formed by connexin47 and connexin32. Glia 58(9):1104-17
  Maglione M, Tress O, Haas B, Karram K, Trotter J, Willecke K, Kettenmann H
  
• (2010). Morphology and dynamics of perisynaptic glia. Brain Res Rev. 63:11-25
  Reichenbach A, Derouiche A, Kirchhoff F