glia

Starving glioblastoma tumors of the cholesterol made by astrocytes could suppress brain cancer progression.

The temporary loss of olfaction stops the flies from eating any more of whatever it is that made them sick.

A pool of neural stem cells that ordinarily lies dormant in the brains of adult mice spawns two types of never-before-documented glial cells when artificially reactivated, potentially pointing to a novel mechanism of brain plasticity.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham neuroscientist aims to determine which cells are most important in prompting the disease’s initiation and progression.

In mice, the brain’s main glial cell type exhibits distinctive patterns of activity across the sleep-wake cycle and influences the response to sleep deprivation.

After an accident as a teenager, he developed the disorder. He then studied the brain to better understand his own seizures, and now plans to sail around the world to show others with the condition how to push their limits.

Patients in a study of catheter ablation who showed signs of more injury to nerve cells and glia in the heart had fewer symptoms after the treatment.

The brain’s immune cells gobble up synapses in the hippocampi of rodents fed high-fat or high-sugar diets.

A double gene-transfer therapy transformed the non-neuronal cells into rod photoreceptors in the retinas of animal models of congenital blindness.

Immune-like cells in the central nervous system are now recognized as key participants in the creation and maintenance of persistent pain.

Researchers are beginning to tease apart the mechanisms underlying differences in how males and females respond to powerful painkillers.

The acute pain that results from injury or disease is very different from chronic pain.

Ben Barres of Stanford University described glia’s roles in ensuring neurons’ proper synapse formation and in responding to brain injury.

In the developing Drosophila visual system, signals from glia cultivate the growth of neurons from immature cells.

Marian Diamond, a former University of California, Berkeley, professor, discovered the first evidence for neuroplasticity and studied Einstein’s brain.

By converting glial cells into dopaminergic neurons, scientists were able to partially rescue motor behavior in mice.

Scientists confirm that astrocytes are involved in regulating molecular and behavioral circadian rhythms in mice. 

Researchers describe how gene expression in different human brain regions is altered with age.