Sentences with phrase «glia become»

Currently, we know that glia become activated in glaucoma, but we do not know by what process.

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But when the immune system becomes activated in response to an illness or injury, glia in regions associated with pain processing seem to take on another role: They release inflammatory molecules that interact with nearby neurons to amplify pain signals.

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.

As the number of neural synapses declined, the Müller glia also became sickly, pulling their branches away from neurons and dividing haphazardly.

To conduct the study, scientists took dental pulp cells from donated baby teeth of three children with diagnoses of non-syndromic autism (part of the on - going «Tooth Fairy Project») and reprogrammed the cells to become either neurons or astrocytes, a type of glia or support cell abundantly found in the brain.

And he hypothesizes that the glia may be able to repopulate if they become damaged due to disease or injury.

If we try to push these SOX2 - deficient cells to become neurons, they die, but they can readily give rise to glia or smooth muscle cells,» Dr. Terskikh said.