🚨 Review Alert *Walking on the tightrope: the shared roles of the bridging pericytes in the brain* Congratulations Audrey Chagnot!! 🥳 Bias aside, this feels like a really meaningful piece for the cerebrovascular field! 😊 www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

Microglial control of cerebral capillary basal tone. Congrats to @eyolab.bsky.social & team ! #cerebrovascular

🐭🧠 #PrecapillarySphincters (PS) at the #arteriole–#capillary junction rapidly dilate ~30% in seconds during #SensoryStimulation—regulating #capillary #BloodFlow dynamically. Here we investigated whether they protect downstream microvessels during abrupt #BloodPressure surges 🧪🧵

New study about the role of microglia in regulating #cerebrovascular function, with an interesting twist on purineric signaling doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Mice lacking microglia (Csf1r∆FIRE/∆FIRE) have normal -synapse number and maturation -seizure susceptibility and hippocampal-prefrontal cortex coherence -segregation of inputs into the lateral geniculate nucleus -neuronal and astrocytic gene expression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had a fantastic week at #ANS2024 with Australasian Neuroscience colleagues talking #microglia, #pericytes and #TasmanianDevils. Look forward to seeing you all again in #Hobart for #ANS2025!

Here's a fun one for #FluorescenceFriday. Did you know #marsupials have an entirely different CNS vascular anatomy to most animals? Arterioles and venules enter the brain and branch in unison, terminating at capillary loops. Check out this example from a #TasmanianDevil brain! (1/2)

Here we show how #microglia contact #pericytes and #endothelialcells in the #venule end of the #capillary bed. Note also how a #primarycilium of an #interneuron invaginates the microglia. But why? 🤔 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @gazz4science.bsky.social

Lovely new review to help identify features of microglia in EM images!

Calling all #pericyte researchers! Here's a list of us to start a community on Bluesky. Please feel free to reply to get added and share with your colleagues as more join! go.bsky.app/GhVdxzC

some great starter packs for the #glia, #astrocyte, #oligodendrocyte, #microglia, #neuro researcher: gliasky, astrocytesky, microglia But if you also like interactions between celltypes, please help this starter pack get started. Maybe someone can connect all of us in a feed? go.bsky.app/MHtJzeC

Microglia community, let’s start the discussion 🧠 follow the Microglia Starter Pack and ask @mancusorenzo.bsky.social to add your colleagues as they join Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/DT3Cp4A

Someone had to do it! I created a starter pack for #Alzheimer’s #dementia #ADRD researchers on Bluesky. Please let me know who I left out! Hoping more and more of us will join Bluesky go.bsky.app/22DpUEy

go.bsky.app/Lyzro3M !WELCOME! thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list. apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!