Sentences with phrase «glial cells after»

«We were surprised that it was expressed in only a fraction of glial cells after the injury.

Together, studies in zebrafish and mammalian models could inform new ways to manipulate glial cells after human spinal cord injury.»

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These cells are similar to brain astroglial cells, and both types of glial cells are activated after TBI.

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

Researchers were able to quantify the protective effect of dexamethasone treatment in protecting both satellite glial cell and neuronal apoptosis; in contrast, meloxicam treatment was only effective in protecting against satellite glial cell apoptosis and only after prolonged administration.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

«Within 3 weeks after expression of the NeuroD1 protein, we saw in the microscope that human glial cells were reinventing themselves: they changed their shape from flat sheet - like glial cells into normal - looking neurons with axon and dendritic branches,» Chen said.

After 24 hours of culture the glial cells and fibroblasts had survived and multiplied but the neurons had undergone a massive degeneration.

But after five days of treating the injury with opiods, the glial cells triggered a chain reaction, including spinal cord imflammation.

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.