Sentences with phrase «when glial cells»
Supporting this idea, she found that mirror pain in rats vanished when glial cells were inactivated.
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Glial cells in the spine may activate when pain - related neurons are firing, dosing both limbs with inflammatory substances that may trigger an excitatory response but that may also be toxic to nerves.
Glial cells, when activated, produce proinflammatory cytokines that may further damage the nerve cells.
When the scientists remove these surface proteins from the niche glial cells, the stem cells begin to grow and prematurely form new daughter cells.
«Spinal cord regeneration might actually be helped by glial scar tissue: Research finds that nerve cells regrow better when glial scarring is left intact.»
When the brain is harmed by injury or disease, neurons often die or degenerate, but glial cells become more branched and numerous.
When you get the flu, it's glial cells — which make up 85 % of the cells in the brain — that release pro-inflammatory cytokines to fight the virus.
Interestingly, this influence appears to work both ways — a mild reduction in disease symptoms was seen when HD mice were treated with normal glial cells.
When an axolotl suffers a spinal cord injury, nearby cells called glial cells kick into high gear, proliferating rapidly and repositioning themselves to rebuild the connections between nerves and reconnect the injured spinal cord.
We show that subpopulations of human astrocytes, generated by activation of different signaling pathways in the same population of human glial precursor cells, have markedly different effects when transplanted into the injured spinal cord.
By contrast, when a human suffers a spinal cord injury, the glial cells form scar tissue, which blocks nerves from ever reconnecting with each other.
Functional efficacy was further enhanced when hNPC were genetically engineered to secrete glial cell line - derived neurotrophic factor.