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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2020 Dec 31;109(4):576–596. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.12.008

Figure 1: Phenotypes and functions of astrocytes from different species discussed herein.

Figure 1:

The schematics illustrate the locations of CNS (gray), neuropil (purple) and astrocytes (green) in nematode (A), fruit fly (B), zebrafish (C), mouse (D), and human (E) at the level of organism, CNS and circuit. Dot plots summarize that 16 well-defined cellular phenotypes/functions of astrocytes are either found in astrocytes (green), found in other type(s) of glia (blue), not known or currently being explored (light green), or not found in glia (white) in the relevant organism indicated. Some human astrocytes project long, unbranched processes that cross cortical laminae (asterisk).