Sentences with phrase «became glial cells»

Although the human cells became glial cells (the brain's scaffolding) and not neurons, the mice unexpectedly became four times as smart as regular mice, as measured by how well they ran mazes and other tests.

Not exact matches

The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.

UW Medicine researchers have now prompted glial cells to become functional interneurons in mouse retinas.

Monje first became interested in neurons» role supporting tumors while working on childhood glioma, a cancer that strikes in the precursors to glial cells in the developing brain.

When the brain is harmed by injury or disease, neurons often die or degenerate, but glial cells become more branched and numerous.

In the healthy brain, stem cell - like glial progenitors can divide, migrate to an injured site, and become mature oligodendrocytes after myelin loss, but, unfortunately, the efficiency of remyelination declines with age.

What we've discovered is that those cells become active very early in the disease, they become active even before we can detect that the neuron is sick, even before the ganglion cell shows signs of degenerating, we find the glial cells are becoming very, very active and that was a surprise and we published those findings.

Strangely enough, its not the neurons (brain cells) that become cancerous, it is the cells supporting the neurons, called glial cells, that cause the problem.