Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting about 35 million people worldwide, and the number is ...

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

Husniye Kantarci was part of a team that discovered the role of glial cells in controlling ... to become fully excitable. Neurons are often referred to as electrically excitable cells, transmitting ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now shown that, in addition to neurons, ...

Glial cells in the brain also produce amyloid beta. Not only neurons build the protein amyloid beta (blue), which clumps together and forms harmful plaques in Alzheimer’s disease: Special glial ...

Neurons, which send messages and commands to the rest of the cells of the brain and body, letting us act, think, and plan, and glial cells which maintain our neurons and clean up after them.

The brain receives huge amounts of information ... and neurons regulate glial cell behavior. In this support of neurons, glial cells have become highly specialized. Glial cells, which can be ...

Other Brain Cells (Glia) Although neurons are considered the basic units ... but still form an important part of the nervous system. Glial cells provide structural and other kinds of support ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Researchers showed that experimentally induced lack of blood flow in the brain epigenetically reprograms astrocytes into ...

elegans swip-10 gene in glial cells plays an essential role in homeostasis of the ... digestion and heart function as well as the signaling of brain neurons that allows us to think and feel,” said ...

Many different types of cells work together in the brain. In humans, nerve cells (neurons) make up less than half of the cells. The rest are called “glia”. The most common glial cells are ...