Mammalian brains are made of these: A dataset of the numbers and densities of neuronal and
nonneuronal cells in the brain of glires, primates, scandentia, eulipotyphlans, afrotherians and artiodactyls, and their relationship with body mass.
Not exact matches
A study
in the International Society for Stem
Cell Research's journal Stem
Cell Reports, published by
Cell Press on November 20 shows that a Sox2 protein, alone or
in combination with another protein, Ascl1, can cause
nonneuronal cells, called NG2 glia, to turn into neurons
in the injured cerebral cortex of adult mice.
Kelly M. Standifer, professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Oklahoma, points out that the researchers tested the compounds» potency
in nonneuronal cells forced to express the receptors.
The team found significant changes
in gene expression after light exposure
in all
cell types
in the visual cortex — both neurons and, unexpectedly,
nonneuronal cells such as astrocytes, macrophages and muscle
cells that line blood vessels
in the brain.
For the rest of his talk, Dr. Gillingwater focused on
nonneuronal cells and tissues that are affected
in SMA models and patients.