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 ...

For more than a century, scientists thought that glial cells were responsible for scar formation. Now, however, researchers have discovered that spinal cord scar tissue largely derives from a ...

"Only NG2 glial cells were found to exhibit neurogenic potential in the spinal cord following injury in adult mice, but they failed to generate mature neurons," Wu said. "Interestingly, by ...

This may include, for instance, loss of spinal interneurons ... modulation of potentially relevant systems in spinal cord glial cells. The use of LV vectors for the control of intracellular ...

The central nervous system (CNS) consists of the brain and spinal cord, the body’s main control center. Glial cells are of utmost importance in this region, as they regulate vital functions ...

A 51-year-old `fit and healthy’ sports teacher died within ten days of being diagnosed with a killer brain tumour. According ...

Glial cell in the central nervous system has been successfully reprogrammed into new neurons to facilitate the recovery after spinal cord injury. Glial cell in the central nervous system has been ...

Sustaining a spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating enough ... Microglia and astrocytes are subtypes of glial cells, the non-neuronal cells of the brain and nervous system.

Afterwards, Phase 1b/2a trials will be started in spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis ... basically overreactive immune cells or glial cells, in sites of injury and in neurodegenerative diseases.

About half of all primary brain cancers are from glial cells. About one-fifth of all primary spinal cord cancers are from glial cells. Gliomas occur more often in men than women. Meningiomas are ...

These grow in star-shaped cells called astrocytes in the brain and spinal cord. They belong to a group of tumors called gliomas. All gliomas grow from “glial cells,” which support and protect ...