Sentences with phrase «other glia»
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.
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He is author of Why We Snap, about the neuroscience of sudden aggression, and The Other Brain, about glia.
This and other research are lending credibility to the conjecture that consciousness is a function of glia, not neurons.
Berninger and others have previously shown that Sox2, Ascl1, and other transcription factors — proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences to control the activity of genes — can induce the nonneuronal «support cells» known as glia to turn into neurons.
Because the brain is like every other tissue connected to the peripheral immune system through meningeal lymphatic vessels,» said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG).
The study published in Cell Metabolism reports a mechanism by which two types of brain cells, neurons and glia, normally support each other's functions.
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.
The pain - related LTP is driven not by neuronal activity, but by glia — nonneuronal cells that protect neurons from injury, among other duties.
The stethoscope, called the Glia model, was made using free open source software to keep costs low and allow others to easily access the code.
Reh said his team hopes to find out if there are other factors that can be activated to allow the Müller glia to regenerate into all the different cell types of the retina.
Sometimes referred to as the stem cells of the zebrafish eye, Müller glia are the cells from which all other types of retinal cells are regenerated in the fish.
More and more evidence from other parts of the brain suggest that a molecule called ATP is part of the signaling mechanism where damaged neurons tell the glia that they are in distress.
In essence, most pathological conditions in the mammalian retina lead to changes in Müller glia — often called reactive gliosis, which might be analogous to the response of astrocytes upon injury of other brain regions.
There were dozens of kinds: cells that give rise to support cells called glia, neurons that inhibit others, and corpus callosum neurons that connect a brain's hemispheres.