AUTHOR=Cicchetti Francesca , Barker Roger A.

TITLE=Current Understanding of the Glial Response to Disorders of the Aging CNS

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2012

YEAR=2012

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2012.00095

DOI=10.3389/fphar.2012.00095

ISSN=1663-9812

ABSTRACT=In this special issue of Frontiers in Neuropharmacology, we have asked leading experts to comment and review the evidence that inflammatory cells play a leading role in the pathological processes underlying neurodegenerative disorders. We now seek to draw these various observations together into a conclusion, with the hope that this will inform further work in this area and lead to the identification of new therapeutic targets that will have a disease modifying effect.