New research published in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms offers insights into how glial cells — the supportive cells ...

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

The PNS contains a number of distinct glial cells, each of which is intimately associated with different parts of the neuron or with specific neuronal cell types 94. Neuronal cell bodies in dorsal ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and ... category of cells that do not transmit electrical signals but still form an important part of the nervous system. Glial cells provide structural ...

This revises the traditional Neuron-Satellite Glial Cell duo model of the PNS based on previous studies ... and established a positive correlation between their abundance, species body size, and the ...

Neurons are cells ... body works. There are many different types of neurons, and they all have special functions in the brain ...

This reconstruction shows more than 1,000 of the 120,000 brain cells captured by the MICRONS project, described below. Each reconstructed neuron is ... send signals, and glial cells, which support ...

Furthermore, many peripheral neural stem cells that migrate out of the neural tube can differentiate into mature neurons and, to a limited extent, glial cells during embryonic and postnatal ...

These three genes encode membrane proteins that transport different metabolites between brain cells, providing them with energy. In the brain, one way that neurons communicate with one another is ...