Sentences with phrase «supporting glial cells»

This close - up of the cells involved reveals supporting glial cells (shown in red) are first to cross the gap between the severed ends.

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Supporting this idea, she found that mirror pain in rats vanished when glial cells were inactivated.

Scientists have found evidence that glial cells, which support and protect neural cells, may play a key role in the regenerative process.

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.

This fluorescence light micrograph shows two important support cells (glial cells) of the human brain.

«From providing growth factor support and ensuring proper oxygen and nutrient delivery to the brain to trimming of obsolete synapses and recycling waste products, recent findings show that glial cells do much more to ensure brain activity is optimized,» Kozai says.

Star - shaped astrocytes are the most abundant subgroup of glial cells, which support and insulate neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

Monje first became interested in neurons» role supporting tumors while working on childhood glioma, a cancer that strikes in the precursors to glial cells in the developing brain.

While the brain actually has more glial cells than neurons, glial cells were long thought to provide only structural support to the neurons, much like cement supports a house.

Astrocytes, one type of glial cells are the supporting cells for survival and function of neurons in the brain by secreting many kinds of neuroprotective molecules.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy and functional neurons, shown in green in this image in the brain of a mouse with Alzheimer's disease.

The scientists have used supporting cells of the central nervous system, glial cells, to regenerate healthy, functional neurons, which are critical for transmitting signals in the brain.

In 1963 Pietro Angeletti and one of us (Levi Montalcini), who were then at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, dissected sensory and sympathetic ganglia into their cellular components: neurons, glial cells (which support and nourish the neurons) and fibroblasts (embryonic connective - tissue cells).

«Our studies showed that these effects occurred in both the neurons and supporting «glial» cells that help provide some nutrients to the neurons,» says Kahn.

Gliomas, which originate in glial cells that support and protect neurons, account for about 70 % of brain cancers.

We have focused on the less - studied replacement of astrocytes, the major support cell in the central nervous system, by generating astrocytes from embryonic human glial precursor cells using two different astrocyte differentiation inducing factors.

Repairing trauma to the central nervous system by replacement of glial support cells is an increasingly attractive therapeutic strategy.

The second big surprise was that the support cells, so called glial cells, these are the cells that surround ganglion cells from their — where their cell body is in the eye all the way back to the brain.

Each odontoblast has support cells called glial cells.

Strangely enough, its not the neurons (brain cells) that become cancerous, it is the cells supporting the neurons, called glial cells, that cause the problem.

Gliomas arise from the supporting cells of the brain (glial cells) and include astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas.

The brain has two types of cells, neurons (nerve cells) and glial (support) cells.