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

A new study reveals how Alzheimer’s disease affects different tissues across the entire body — including biological aging, ...

The studies in the journal Science have backed up the increasing body of research work showing that astrocytes are much more ...

New data confirm a nearly two-fold increase in Parkinson’s risk near golf courses, validating decades of naturopathic concern ...

but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and other molecules form a vast communication web that governs everything from thought to behavior. Inside each neuron ...

In the present study, male C57BL/6JN mice were used for the aging and exercise cohorts, while male whole-body inducible ... identified 18 cell types, including neurons, glial cells, and immune ...

And that triggers the next neuron to fire. And in the decades since, researchers– some groups said glial cells can signal like this ... I want to move to talk about glia in another part of the body ...

Focusing back on the AMsh-AFD interaction, the team asked a follow-up question: KCC-3 appeared to mediate this glia-neuron interaction by localizing specifically to their interface, but how was this ...

Careful clustering of these molecules ensures that the glial cell can conduct a distinct “conversation” with each neuron. Through these molecular interlocutors, glia can “coach” neurons, influencing ...

From the moment you swallow a bite of food to the moment it exits your body, the gut is toiling to ... Others reveal the diversity of glial cells that exist in the gut, and how each type may ...

The first step in this messaging process is the action potential, or a wave of electricity triggered in the nerve cell, or neuron. The neurons found in the brain, spinal cord and rest of the body ...