Sentences with phrase «targeted glial cells»
The team used a designer drug technology known as DREADD to selectively turn off targeted glial cells, something that has not been done before, said Grace.
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Therefore, it stands to reason that targeting these glial cells (in lieu of or in combination with neurons) may dramatically improve current treatments.»
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The virus appears to invade the brain by infecting a type of glial cell called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which nourish smell - sensing neurons and guide them from the olfactory bulb to their targets in the nervous system.
Targeting HO - 1 is therefore another potential approach to improving photodynamic detection in human glial cell cancers.
However, research published in Nature Biomedical Engineering reveals that it may also be important to target the supportive glial cells surrounding the neurons.
The brain cells targeted are called «glial» cells - not «neurons», which are the brain cells that send messages to each other.
Understanding the role of glial cells in glaucoma as well as what happens to the optic nerve where the retinal nerve axons leave the eye may present new therapeutic targets and even potential biomarkers of glaucoma.
Avigen discovered the utility of AV411 through its internal program to develop innovative and targeted approaches to reducing nervous system dysfunction caused by glial cell activation.