Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste ...

Combinatorial approaches using Schwann cells, olfactory ensheathing cells and growth factors or factors limiting tissue damage are expected to pave the way for more efficient autologous glial-cell ...

Emerging evidence highlights the dual role of oligodendrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease, both providing protective mechanisms against the pathology and contributing to its progression. AstroNet, a ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...

and therapeutic strategies targeting these factors are introduced. As glial cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS), Schwann cells are responsible for providing trophic support for the growth and ...

Institute of Physics and Materials Science, Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Ressources, BOKU University, Peter Jordan-Straß 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria ...

Neural crest cells migrate towards the anode of electric fields ex vivo. Representative time-lapse images of neural crest clusters in the absence (top panel) or presence (bottom panel) of electric ...

The proteins that make cell-to-cell cargo transport possible. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250115165210.htm ...

There is an inseparable relationship between brain iron metabolism disorder and activated glial cells after ICH. Glial cells participate in brain iron metabolism through various mechanisms; meanwhile, ...

To understand this possibility, it’s helpful to look at how the brain works. The brain is composed of many different types of cells, including neurons and glial cells. Neurons are the stars of the ...

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