… 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 …
… flies undermines maintenance of key ion balance epilepsy glia drosophila https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.44186 A new … and their co-authors found that excess calcium in cortex glia cells causes them to hyper-activate a molecular pathway … ensue. “No one has really shown how calcium signaling in glia could directly communicate with this more classical role …
… 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 …
… microglia synapse neuroimmunology https://doi.org/10.1002/GLIA.24485 A new MIT study finds that microglia with mutant … to Alzheimer’s disease risk.” In the study in the journal GLIA , Tsai and Penney’s team shows that human microglia with …
… Leyla Akay Li-Huei Tsai Akay's research focuses on glia and myelination in the context of Alzheimer's disease. … is strongly linked to distinct functional states in glia, so in-depth morphological analysis of the whole-brain …