Lessons from glaucoma: rethinking the fluid-brain barriers in common neurodegenerative disorders

Glaucoma has been recently characterized as a member of the group of anoikis-related diseases. Anoikis, a form of apoptosis, can be triggered by the unfastening of adherent junctions present in astrocytes. In those areas of the central nervous system in which the soma of the neurons or their axons a...

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Main Author: Francisco Javier Carreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
Series:Neural Regeneration Research
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Online Access:http://www.nrronline.org/article.asp?issn=1673-5374;year=2019;volume=14;issue=6;spage=962;epage=966;aulast=Carreras