… relationship between neurons and the brain cells called glia that help them function. Through four years of work led … and activity. The mutation, Weiss discovered, caused the glia to leave too much potassium outside the neurons, making … unclear was how this made the neurons that those glia contact so susceptible to seizures. Shirley Weiss holds …
… at not only neurons but also non-neuronal brain cells, or glia, and found that they also showed changes in expression of hundreds of genes after fear conditioning. Glia called astrocytes are known to be involved in fear … of genes associated with fear conditioning-related DSBs in glia was the response to hormones. The researchers therefore …