Pharmacological or genetic depletion of senescent astrocytes prevents whole brain irradiation–induced impairment of neurovascular coupling responses protecting cognitive function in mice

GeroScience - Tập 42 Số 2 - Trang 409-428 - 2020
Andriy Yabluchanskiy1, Stefano Tarantini1, Priya Balasubramanian2, Tamás Kiss1, Tamás Csípő1, Gábor Fülöp1, Ágnes Lipécz1, Chetan Ahire2, Jordan DelFavero2, Ádám Nyúl‐Tóth3, William E. Sonntag2, Michal Laniado Schwartzman4, Judith Campisi5, Anna Csiszár1, Zoltán Ungvári3
1Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Neurodegeneration Program, Reynolds Oklahoma Center on Aging/Oklahoma Center for Geroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 975 N. E. 10th Street - BRC 1303, Oklahoma City, OK, 731042, USA
2Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Neurodegeneration Program, Reynolds Oklahoma Center on Aging/Oklahoma Center for Geroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA
3International Training Program in Geroscience, Doctoral School of Basic and Translational Medicine/Department of Public Health, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
4Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, USA
5Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, USA

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