Calcineurin in reactive astrocytes plays a key role in the interplay between proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory signals.

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Maladaptive inflammation is a major suspect in progressive neurodegeneration, but the underlying mechanisms are difficult to envisage in part because reactive glial cells at lesion sites secrete both proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators. We now report that astrocytes modulate neuronal resilience to inflammatory insults through the phosphatase calcineurin. In quiescent astrocytes, inflammatory mediators...

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