Past neuroscience studies found that when the central nervous system (CNS) is damaged, for instance following a stroke or spinal cord injuries, the lesions become surrounded by borders of newly ...
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A single protein called Sox9 just activated brain cells to clear Alzheimer’s plaque — scientists triggered it in living animals
A team of neuroscientists has reprogrammed the brain’s own support cells to devour Alzheimer’s plaques in living mice, using ...
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and the nervous system.
The mechanism underlying astrocyte-mediated restoration of brain tissue after an injury has now been pinpointed by a team of researchers. This could lead to new treatments that encourage regeneration ...
Why are we able to recall only some of our past experiences? A new study led by Jun Nagai at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan has an answer. Surprisingly, it turns out that the brain cells ...
Researchers have discovered that astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, play a direct role in the regulation of adult neuronal circuits involved in learning and memory. Researchers at ...
Astrocytes are star shaped cells that make up around 35% of human brain cells. They were once thought of as cells that simply supported neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). But in recent years ...
Astrocytes release a variety of chemical mediators by which they respond and signal to their environment (for review, see ref. 1). The underlying mechanisms for this release remain largely undefined.
Long thought of as "brain glue," the star-shaped cells called astrocytes - members of a family of cells found in the central nervous system called glial that help regulate blood flow, synaptic ...
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...
Star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes are finally getting their chance to shine. Two groups of researchers — one at MIT, the other at Harvard — have shown that astrocytes get the blood pumping to ...
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