Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein

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An intermediate filament protein found only in glial cells or cells of glial origin. MW 51,000.

Descriptor ID	D005904
MeSH Number(s)	D05.750.078.593.400 D12.776.220.475.400
Concept/Terms	Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Glial Intermediate Filament Protein Glial Fibrillary Acid Protein Astroprotein GFA-Protein GFA Protein

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Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Macromolecular Substances [D05]
Polymers [D05.750]
Biopolymers [D05.750.078]
Intermediate Filament Proteins [D05.750.078.593]
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein [D05.750.078.593.400]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Cytoskeletal Proteins [D12.776.220]
Intermediate Filament Proteins [D12.776.220.475]
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein [D12.776.220.475.400]

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2004	0	1	1
2005	0	2	2
2006	0	2	2
2008	0	5	5
2010	0	1	1
2011	0	4	4
2013	0	2	2
2014	1	1	2
2015	1	1	2
2016	1	0	1
2017	0	1	1
2019	0	1	1
2020	1	0	1
2021	0	1	1
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	3	3
2025	0	1	1

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Heneka MT, Gauthier S, Chandekar SA, Hviid Hahn-Pedersen J, Bentsen MA, Zetterberg H. Neuroinflammatory fluid biomarkers in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic literature review. Mol Psychiatry. 2025 Jun; 30(6):2783-2798.

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Dougan CE, Roberts BL, Crosby AJ, Karatsoreos IN, Peyton SR. Short-term neural and glial response to mild traumatic brain injury in the hippocampus. Biophys J. 2024 10 01; 123(19):3346-3354.

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Cousins KAQ, Phillips JS, Das SR, O'Brien K, Tropea TF, Chen-Plotkin A, Shaw LM, Nasrallah IM, Mechanic-Hamilton D, McMillan CT, Irwin DJ, Lee EB, Wolk DA. Pathologic and cognitive correlates of plasma biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 06; 20(6):3889-3905.

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Heneka M, Gauthier S, Chandekar SA, Hahn-Pedersen JH, Bentsen M, Zetterberg H. The Role of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Literature Review (P7-9.013). Neurology. 2024 Apr 09; 102(7_supplement_1):3344.

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Cousins KAQ, Irwin DJ, Chen-Plotkin A, Shaw LM, Arezoumandan S, Lee EB, Wolk DA, Weintraub D, Spindler M, Deik A, Grossman M, Tropea TF. Plasma GFAP associates with secondary Alzheimer's pathology in Lewy body disease. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2023 05; 10(5):802-813.

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Magers MJ, Perrino CM, Ulbright TM, Idrees MT. Immunophenotypic Characterization of Germ Cell Tumor-Derived Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors: Evidence for Frequent Neuronal and/or Glial Differentiation. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2021 08 01; 145(8):953-959.

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Reece JT, Milone M, Wang P, Herman D, Petrov D, Shaw LM. A Biomarker for Concussion: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown. J Appl Lab Med. 2020 01 01; 5(1):170-182.

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Lee PKJ, Small JE, Vytopil M. Teaching NeuroImages: Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein meningoencephalomyelitis. Neurology. 2019 11 26; 93(22):e2076-e2077.

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Li D, Liu C, Yang C, Wang D, Wu D, Qi Y, Su Q, Gao G, Xu Z, Guo Y. Slow Intrathecal Injection of rAAVrh10 Enhances its Transduction of Spinal Cord and Therapeutic Efficacy in a Mutant SOD1 Model of ALS. Neuroscience. 2017 Dec 04; 365:192-205.

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Johnson K, Barragan J, Bashiruddin S, Smith CJ, Tyrrell C, Parsons MJ, Doris R, Kucenas S, Downes GB, Velez CM, Schneider C, Sakai C, Pathak N, Anderson K, Stein R, Devoto SH, Mumm JS, Barresi MJ. Gfap-positive radial glial cells are an essential progenitor population for later-born neurons and glia in the zebrafish spinal cord. Glia. 2016 07; 64(7):1170-89.

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