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Astrocyte swelling associated with brain oedema activates intracellular signalling pathways.

Long-term potentiation is enhanced by muscarinic cholinergic receptor activation through the inhibition of SK channels.

Neural stem cell reactivation is induced by glial cells, which secrete insulin-like peptides in response to a nutritional stimulus.

Food restriction alters stress and feeding pathways in the brain, and promotes binge eating of high-fat foods upon subsequent exposure to stress.

miRNA-124 expression ensures a resting phenotype in microglial cells.

A developmental programme initiates the reorganization of inhibitory input to direction-sensitive retinal cells.

Dopaminergic signalling encodes the incentive salience of cues in a form of stimulus–reward learning.

Inhibition of caspase-3 improves synaptic function and memory in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.