Astrocytes, the most prominent glial cell type in the brain, send specialized processes called endfeet around blood vessels and express a large molecular repertoire regulating the cerebrovascular system physiology. One of the most striking properties of astrocyte endfeet is their enrichment in gap j...
We have used a lipoprotein-deficient mutant Streptococcus pneumoniae strain, delta lgt, to investigate the role of lipoproteins during inflammatory responses to live S. pneumoniae.
