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Part I: Astrocyte Biology: Overviews and Perspectives 1. The Astrocyte-Neuron Interface: An Overview on Molecular and Cellular Dynamics Controlling Formation and Maintenance of the Tripartite Synapse Uzma Hasan and Sandeep K. Singh 2. Role of Astrocytes in the Neurogenic Niches Julia Schneider, Julian Karpf, and Ruth Beckervordersandforth Part II: Isolation of Astrocytes from Animal Models 3. Isolation and Culture of Astrocytes from Postnatal and Adult Mouse Brains Yingbo He, Natalie Taylor, and Anindya Bhattacharya 4. Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting-Based Isolation and Characterization of Neural Stem Cells from the Adult Zebrafish Telencephalon Rossella Di Giaimo, Sven Aschenbroich, and Jovica Ninkovic Part III: Astrocyte Morphology and Functions: Emerging Methods for Their Characterizations In Vivo, In Situ, and In Vitro 5. A Method to Visualize the Nanoscopic Morphology of Astrocytes In Vitro and In Situ Janosch P. Heller and Dmitri A. Rusakov 6. A Specialized Method to Resolve Fine 3D Features of Astrocytes in Non-Human Primate (Marmoset, Callithrix Jacchus) and Human Fixed Brain Samples Gal Quesseveur, Aymeric Fouquier d’Hroul, Keith K. Murai, and David S. Bouvier 7. Cisterna Magna Injection in Rats to Study Glymphatic Function Marta Ramos, Nicholas Burdon Bechet, Roberta Battistella, Chiara Pavan, Anna L.R. Xavier, Maiken Nedergaard, and Iben Lundgaard 8. Preparing the Astrocyte Perivascular Endfeet Transcriptome to Investigate Astrocyte Molecular Regulations at the Brain Vascular Interface Anne-Ccile Boulay, Nomie Mazar, Bruno Saubama, and Martine Cohen-Salmon 9. Monitoring Interneuron-Astrocyte Signaling and Its Consequences on Synaptic Transmission Sara Mederos and Gertrudis Perea 10. Astrocytes and Circadian Rhythms: An Emerging Astrocyte-Neuron Synergy in the Timekeeping System Olga Barca Mayo, Luca Berdondini, and Davide De Pietri Tonelli 11. In Vitro Engulfment Assay to Measure Phagocytic Activity of Astrocytes Using Synaptosomes Youkyeong Gloria Byun and Won-Suk Chung 12. Quantifying Compartment-Specific Protein Translocation in Astrocytes by Object-Oriented Image Analysis: Mitochondrial Translocation of PKCd Kiavasch M.N. Farid and Amin Derouiche 13. Imaging of Local and Global Sodium Signals in Astrocytes Niklas J. Gerkau, Karl W. Kafitz, and Christine R. Rose 14. Detection of Protein Uptake in In Vitro Cultured Astrocytes Exemplified by the Uptake of the Serine Protease, Tissue Plasminogen Activator Ewa E. Bres and Andreas Faissner 15. Native Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (N-ChIP) in Primary Cortical Rat Astrocytes Victoria Adelheid Malik, Barbara Di Benedetto, and Mira Jakovcevski Part IV: Astrocyte Pathologies in the Central Nervous System: Emerging Methods for Their Characterizations In Vivo, In Situ, and In Vitro 16. Imaging and Manipulating Astrocyte Function In Vivo in the Context of CNS Injury Oleksii Shandra and Stefanie Robel 17. Glial Pathology in Major Depressive Disorder: An Approach to Investigate the Coverage of Blood Vessels by Astrocyte Endfeet in Human Postmortem Brain Grazyna Rajkowska and Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo 18. Examining the Coverage of Blood Vessels by Astrocyte Endfeet in an Animal Model of Major Depressive Disorder Heike Hallof-Bstrich and Barbara Di Benedetto 19. A Method to Investigate Astrocyte and Microglial Morphological Changes in the Aging Brain of the Rhesus Macaque Kevin B. Chiu, Kim M. Lee, Katelyn N. Robillard, and Andrew G. MacLean 20. Investigating Age-Related Changes in Proliferation and the Cell Division Repertoire of Parenchymal Reactive Astrocytes Gabor Heimann and Swetlana Sirko
