The study also discovered that M. lepromatosis has retained the genes needed to infect cells of the nervous system called Schwann cells. (sciencedaily.com)
Among the 14 described GLUT proteins, GLUT1 is — under physiological conditions - mainly responsible for supplying cells of the nervous system with glucose, an essential source of energy for these cells [1]. (thesgc.org)
About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells. (scientificamerican.com)