plural glia
: supporting tissue intermingled with the essential elements of nervous tissue especially in the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia
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Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out—such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Each cell in the image (both neurons and the support cells known as glia) was color-coded by hand, a process that took 150 hours.
—Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The most comprehensive atlas of the mouse brain to date, published today, identified 5,300 cell types, including both neurons and glia.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Today glia are known to help regulate metabolism, protect neurons and clean up cellular waste—critical but unglamorous roles.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out — such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
These findings, published in Nature, breach the rigid divide between signaling neurons and supportive glia.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
All the other brain cells, called glia, were thought to serve purely supportive roles.
—Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out—such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Each cell in the image (both neurons and the support cells known as glia) was color-coded by hand, a process that took 150 hours.
—Danielle Egan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The most comprehensive atlas of the mouse brain to date, published today, identified 5,300 cell types, including both neurons and glia.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Today glia are known to help regulate metabolism, protect neurons and clean up cellular waste—critical but unglamorous roles.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out — such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
These findings, published in Nature, breach the rigid divide between signaling neurons and supportive glia.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
All the other brain cells, called glia, were thought to serve purely supportive roles.
—Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
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plural glia
: supporting tissue that is intermingled with the essential elements of nervous tissue especially in the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia, is either of ectodermal or mesodermal origin, and is composed of a network of fine fibrils and of flattened stellate cells with numerous radiating fibrillar processes see macroglia, microglia
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