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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Published in Science, the study shows how a phospholipid released by glial cells—the cells in the nervous system that support neurons—controls the positioning of sensory neurons within the spinal cord ...

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.

The goal is to have these cells then develop into neurons and glial cells, which support and ... that two out of four participants with a spinal cord injury saw improvements in their motor function.

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 ...

Glial cells are found in both the CNS and PNS but ... Ependymal cells: lining the spinal cord and the brain’s ventricles (fluid-filled spaces), these create and secrete cerebrospinal fluid ...