There are two fundamentally different cell types in the brain, neurons and glial cells. The latter, for example, insulate the 'wiring' of nerve cells or guarantee optimal working conditions for them.

Glial cells (their filaments stained green in the section of rat hippocampus pictured, with neuron filaments stained blue and the nuclei of both stained red) are now fashionable topics of study.

YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU: So the biggest difference between neurons and glial cells is that neurons are the ones that send electrical signals in the brain. They’re the ones that drive our cognitive ...

Glia are non-neuronal cells that were long-thought to only provide passive support to neurons. However, over the last few decades, it has been increasingly found that glia play many active and ...

Of note, Müller glia in this study were derived from immature Müller glia and it remains to be seen if similar approaches can transform adult human Müller glia into neurons, and to what ...

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Now, in a finding which may help to address aging-related disease, an interdisciplinary team — which at Purdue University was led by researcher Gaurav Chopra — discovered that diminishing energy ...

Beyond neurons: Glial cells identified as key players in Alzheimer's disease. 8mo. M emory loss, confusion, speech problems – Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, ...