Glial cells are an integral ... or messages, can travel more efficiently along the neurons. Oligodendrocytes are essential for proper nerve conduction. They play an important role in certain ...

They also have the potential to generate neurons and may be the source of the fibroblast population that is found in peripheral nerves. In many ways our ideas about CNS and PNS glial cells have ...

Half of the cells in the brain are neurons, the other half are glial cells ... the enteric nervous system, or sometimes the second brain. From the moment you swallow your food to the moment it leaves ...

There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons and glial cells. The latter, for example, insulate the 'wiring' of nerve cells ... Such spikes travel toward the cell body ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

In total, around 100 billion neurons and 1,000 billion glial (support) cells ... nervous system (PNS) that run in from the skin, muscles, and joints. Motor commands from the brain travel from ...

A lot of research is now focused on the interaction of neurons ... and a key role for glial cells called oligodendrocytes, which provide insulation for nerve fibers. Prakash says her team didn ...

Using tiny worms called nematodes, they revealed how an individual glial cell independently regulates different neurons and helps integrate sensory information flowing through separate ... scientists ...

Heading this effort is the gut’s very own network of nerve cells, known as the enteric nervous system, which weaves through the ... reserved for neurons. A similar glial reckoning is now ...

The 86bn neurons ... of brain cell—microglia, oligodendrocytes and astrocytes—collectively called glial cells (short for “neuroglia”, from the Greek for “nerve glue”).

Homeostasis is the ability of living organisms to maintain stable internal conditions, such as temperature, hydration and ...

They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that extend like wires throughout your body. Your nervous system uses billions of tiny, connected nerve cells called neurons to send the ...