Astrocyte-specific knockout of YKL-40/Chi3l1 reduces Aβ burden and restores memory functions in 5xFAD mice.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll animal works were approved by the Hong Kong Department of Health and conducted in accordance with the Animal Experimentations and Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (No.18-104-GRF) and by Animal Ethics Committee of Weifang Medical University (No. 2019SDL055). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsAll authors do not have any competing interests to declare. Competing interests All authors do not have any competing interests to declare."

"Funding This study was supported by a General Research Fund grant (#14123718) to AMC from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, and a General Program Grant (ZR2020MH146) to YW from the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation."