How astrucyte function changes with healthy aging

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Please answer the following questions:

1. Provide a brief description (a few sentences) of how astrucyte function changes with healthy aging (elderly), then provide a brief comparisson (a few sentences) between those changes, with changes in astrocyte function in neurodegenerative diseases.

2. Based on what you described in the previous question, briefly discuss techniques that are available to alter astrocyte function to block or slow the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. focus on one or two techniques that you think are most promising, and explain why you think theyre most promising; how these treatments work: what is the key mechanism of action?

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