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ArticleNature communications2025

Molecular profiling of brain endothelial cell to astrocyte endfoot communication in mouse and human.

Steven A Hill, Isabel Bravo-Ferrer, Austėja Čiulkinytė, Noelia Pérez Ramos, Ilaria Rossetti, Chiara Colvin, Paula Beltran-Lobo, Carlos Parra-Pérez, Katie Emelianova, Owen Dando and 6 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Perisynaptic Astrocytic Processes as Communication Hubs and Early Sites of Dysfunction.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2026
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  4. Astrocyte-driven multicellular mechanisms of CNS repair and cerebroprotection.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026
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  7. A SynB1-conjugated antibody cocktail crosses the blood-brain barrier to produce a therapeutic effect on rabies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Steven A Hill *Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8903-4551
Isabel Bravo-Ferrer *Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4566-2617
Austėja ČiulkinytėCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-5492
Noelia Pérez RamosCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-8305-791X
Ilaria RossettiCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9081-8783
Chiara ColvinCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Paula Beltran-LoboCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Carlos Parra-PérezCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-3817-1445
Katie EmelianovaCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Owen DandoCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6269-6408
Beth GearyMedical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Raja S NirujogiMedical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3177-8566
Dario R AlessiMedical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2140-9185
Do-Young LeeDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Youn-Bok LeeDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Blanca Díaz CastroCentre for Discovery Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. b.diaz-castro@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1839-985X

Funding

Alzheimer's Research UK (ARUK) ARUK-ECRBF2023B-005Alzheimer's Society 609Alzheimer's Society 663RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UU_00018/1Royal Society RGS\R1\231330Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 218493/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our understanding of how the body communicates with the brain to coordinate their functions is remarkably limited. At the blood-brain barrier (BBB), brain endothelial cells (BECs) are ideally positioned to mediate signaling between blood and brain parenchyma via direct communication with astrocyte perivascular processes (endfeet). We develop a method to define the mouse in vivo astrocyte endfoot proteome, which in combination with BEC-specific RNA-seq, reveal BEC to astrocyte endfoot ligand-receptor pairs that are modulated when mice are exposed to a peripheral inflammatory insult with lipopolysaccharide. We show that over 80% of these mouse BEC-endfoot ligand-receptor pairs are also found in the human BBB, with a subset of them differentially expressed in human multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy individuals. Our findings reveal dynamic BEC-endfoot communication pathways that are relevant to human physiology and provide methodology and datasets for the translational study of BEC-astrocyte crosstalk in health and disease.

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AstrocytesBlood-Brain BarrierBrainCell CommunicationEndothelial CellsAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsFemaleHumansLipopolysaccharidesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMultiple SclerosisProteomeLipopolysaccharidesProteome

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PMCPMC12592424

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