Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) alters the molecular and cellular composition of neural tissue and leads to glial scarring, which inhibits the regrowth of damaged axons. Mammalian glial ...

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 ...

The glial cells of the nervous system have been eclipsed in importance ... One reason glia were given such short shrift was that when researchers first began staining nervous system tissue, their ...

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. Synapses ...

One recent study, not yet peer-reviewed, has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract, signaling to the gut tissue to contract and move it ...

These are glial genes responsible for taking care of damaged brain tissue. The researchers studied samples from patients’ brain surgeries. Here’s some fun news: After you die, you’re not ...

which can self-renew and differentiate into specific brain cells like neurons and glial cells, holds great promise. However, the stem cells need to be delivered to the tissue in a medium that ...

One recent study, not yet peer-reviewed, has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract, signaling to the gut tissue to contract and move it along ...

Despite all our scientific advances over the last century, mood disorders like depression and anxiety remain incredibly common and difficult to treat effectively. Recent efforts to better ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer, develops in the astrocyte cells found in the glial tissue of the brain and spinal cord. About 14,000 new GBM cases occur each year, ...