stem cellsmicrogliaimmune systemevolutionblood–Glial cells and neurons depend on each other from birth to death. Glial cells accomplish many tasks for the proper development of the nervous system and for the maintenance of neurological functions. This review focuses on recent findings in the simple ...
and glia, cells that provide support functions for the neurons by playing an information processing role that is complementary to neurons. A neuron can be compared to an electrical wire—it transmits a signal from one place to another. Glia can be compared to...
Nervous systems of bilaterian animals generally consist of two cell types: neurons and glial cells. Despite accumulating data about the many important functions glial cells serve in bilaterian nervous systems, the evolutionary origin of this abundant cell type remains unclear. Current hypotheses regarding...
GFAP and S-100 positive cells in retinoblastomas were detected mostly in well differentiated glial cells which were interpreted as reactive or non-neoplastic cells. Some of the GFAP and S-100 positive cells in retinoblastomas were defined as tumour cells that resembled neoplastic astrocytes in ...
Glia cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a survival factor for subpopulations of neurons, including somatic and autonomic motor neurons. These neurons depend, in part, on GDNF that is synthesized and secreted by their target tissues. It has been shown that a number of tissues in th...
Combining in utero electroporation with thepiggyBacsystem leads to transgene expression not only in neurons but also in glial cells in the mouse cerebral cortex We first made the donor plasmidpPB-CAG-EGFPusing thepiggyBacsystem and the CAG promoter (Fig.1A). We then tested whether the combinatio...
44.1Neuronal and Glial Coevolution: Glial Cells Associate with Neuronal Processes Neurons and glia are the main cellular constituents of thenervous systemin virtually all complex organisms. Glial cells associate with neuronal cell bodies and axonal projections in all animals, except coelenterates (e....
This argues for reciprocal signaling between neurons and glia which needs to be investigated further. In this paper, we demonstrate the presence of a set of cells in Drosophila, which share similarities with the sorting zone glia in the moth. The cells which are labeled with GH146::GFP ...
139, 140, 178, 179 The relationship between hypothalamic glial cells and neurons is further emphasized by the fact that hypothalamic glial cells express receptors and transporters for numerous metabolic hormones and factors,180–185 suggesting that some of the central actions of these metabolic ...
Norbert,Chauvet,Alain,Privat,and,Gerard,Alonso 摘要: We have recently shown that tanycytes, a particular type of glial cell that has morphological and biochemical similarities with radial glial cells, constitute a preferential support for the regeneration of lesioned neurohypophysial axons. The ...