Brain or spinal cord injury often results in glial scar tissue that is correlated to neural functional loss. Glial scar is a well-known obstacle for neural regeneration. A research team led by ...

Moli Morgon, a young British woman, experienced seizures during a Turkish holiday initially suspected as heatstroke. Upon ...

Glial scar tissue may aid the regrowth of the spinal cord after an injury, contrary to widely the held assumption it impeded growth, scientists at UCLA report.

A study found a surprising amount of activity in genes unique to glial cells after the simulated death of human tissue. (Jeffrey Loeb/UIC) ...

Few neuroscientists question the idea that scar tissue formed by glial cells after brain or spinal cord injury impedes regrowth of damaged nerve cells. But now, working in mouse models, a team of ...

GFAP, or glial fibrillary acidic protein, supports star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes that help maintain nerve cell ...

Tohoku University researchers have shown that Bergmann glial cells, astrocyte-like cells in the cerebellum, "eat" their neighboring neuronal elements within healthy living brain tissue.

But in tissue from Alzheimer’s patients, the system appeared to break down. The glial cells became swollen and malformed, and their projections expanded into large, bulbous structures packed ...

Damaged brain tissue can be re-grown using a new method that lets researchers guide stem cells into exactly the type of brain cells they need for a particular spot. They're targeting new ...

The researchers say interferon gamma-enteric glial cell signaling emerges as a fundamental mechanism in maintaining and restoring tissue integrity. By monitoring interferon gamma levels at steady ...

To do this, they blocked the ability of enteric glial cells to be activated by interferon gamma and found that this led to tissue inflammation even in normal mice.

Gliomatosis peritonei, a rare condition often associated with immature ovarian teratoma, is characterized by the presence of mature glial tissue in the peritoneum.