Sentences with phrase «how glia»

Going forward, Dr. Mann hopes to explore how the glia coordinate with each other without the benefit of hardwiring like motor neurons; perhaps they communicate with each other, or with the motor neurons.

Not exact matches

In addition to shedding light on how abnormal glia can cause schizophrenia, the study underlined how readily mouse brains accept human cells.

The findings provide «a convincing explanation of how dying neurons attract microglia,» says Frank Kirchhoff, a glia physiologist at the University of Saarland in Homburg, Germany, who was not involved in the study.

The researchers donned their thinking caps to explain how neural stem and progenitor cells differentiate into neurons and related cells called glia.

Early in his career, he discovered that previously enigmatic support cells, known as radial glia, serve as guides for the migration of cortical neurons in the developing brain, and showed how this process is critical for the organization of the multi-layered structure of the cerebral cortex.