{"id":67928,"date":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/astrocytes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","slug":"astrocytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/astrocytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrocytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from the ancient Greek \u1f04\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd, \u00e1stron, &#8220;star&#8221; and \u03ba\u03cd\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, k\u00fatos, &#8220;cavity&#8221;, &#8220;cell&#8221;), known collectively as astroglia, are characteristic stellate glial cells in the brain and spinal cord. They perform a variety of functions, including biochemical control of the endothelial cells that form the blood-brain barrier, the supply of nutrients to nervous tissue, the maintenance of extracellular ion balance, the regulation of cerebral blood flow, and a role in the process of brain and spinal cord repair and scarring after infection and traumatic injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the ancient Greek \u1f04\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd, \u00e1stron, &#8220;star&#8221; and \u03ba\u03cd\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, k\u00fatos, &#8220;cavity&#8221;, &#8220;cell&#8221;), known collectively as astroglia, are characteristic stellate glial cells in the brain and spinal cord. They perform a variety of functions, including biochemical control of the endothelial cells that form the blood-brain barrier, the supply of nutrients to nervous tissue, the maintenance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-physiological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}