title: Astrocytes reassessment - an evolving concept part one: embryology, biology, morphology and reactivity.
abstract: The goal of this review is to integrate - in its two parts - the considerable amount of information that has accumulated during these recent years over the morphology, biology and functions of astrocytes - first part - and to illustrate the active role of these cells in pathophysiological processes implicated in various psychiatric and neurologic disorders - second part.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Histology, Department of Morphological Sciences, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Alina Simona
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Şovrea
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Histology, Department of Morphological Sciences, Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Adina Bianca
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Boşca
keywords: Astrocytes; Molecular mechanisms; Reactive astrogliosis; Therapeutic targets