The Institute of Expenmental Medicine of the ASCR in cooperation with the Czech Neuroscience Society, The Slovak Society for Neuroscience and The Austrian Alzheimer Society organized the FENS Featured Regional Meeting. This Federation of European Neuroscience Societies event met September 9-11, 2013 at the Prague Congress Centre. More than 600 active participants from around the world participated in a broad program covering important areas of current neuroscience research. The scientific program consisted of four plenary lectures, 18 symposiums, six oral communication sessions and six special interest sessions by the world's leading experts. In addition, acclaimed scientists and their students presented more than 350 posters during the course of the meeting. and Miroslava Anděrová.
The pathological potential of glial cells was recognized already by Rudolf Virchow, Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Pio Del Rio-Ortega. Many functions and roles performed by astroglia in the healthy brain determine their involvement in brain diseases; as indeed any kind of brain in sult does affect astrocytes, and their performance in pathological conditions, to a very large extent, determines the survival of the brain parenchyma, the degree of damage and neurological defect. Astrocytes being in general responsible for overall brain homeostasis are involved in virtually every form of brain pathology. Here we provide an overview of recent developments in identifying the role and mechanisms of the pathological potential of astroglia., A. Chvátal, M. Anděrová, H. Neprašová, I. Prajerová, L. Benešová, O. Butenko, A. Verkhratsky., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy