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 ...

One recent study, not yet peer-reviewed, has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract, signaling to the gut tissue to contract and move it ...

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 ...

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

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One recent study, not yet peer-reviewed, has identified a new subset of glial cells that senses food as it moves through the digestive tract, signaling to the gut tissue to contract and move it along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

Changes in glial subtypes appear to drive these trajectories ... "We also need to transition our trajectories derived from brain tissue to biofluids -- blood or cerebrospinal fluid -- that can ...

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, ...

Glioma is a broad category of brain and spinal cord tumors that come from glial cells - brain cells ... and infiltrate into the normal brain tissue, which makes surgical removal very difficult ...