Examples of glial in a Sentence
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Glioma originates in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, per the website.
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Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
Then, in 1990, a curious phenomenon emerged: Researchers observed an astrocyte, a subtype of glial cell, responding to glutamate, the main neurotransmitter that generates electrical activity.
—Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Their equivalent of blood simply sloshes through organs inside their exoskeleton, but their equivalent of a brain is sheathed in protective glial cells.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
A number of studies have focused on senescent glial cells in the brain, an important and large class of non-neuronal cells that have a host of critical functions.
—Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
Now Fields and others have figured out exactly how glial cells alter myelin, the insulation of our neural wiring, to support the mind’s acquisition of knowledge.
—Curtis Brainard, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
The team then measured the resulting amount of basal radial glial progenitor cells in the mice neocortexes, noting that the cells increased with the modern human variant of the protein, resulting in a higher production of neurons.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
The researchers, Joshua Raji and Christopher Potter, discovered that the two animals had around 200,000 brain cells on average, mostly neurons, with about 10 to 15 percent non-neuronal cells, such as glial cells.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
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Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
Then, in 1990, a curious phenomenon emerged: Researchers observed an astrocyte, a subtype of glial cell, responding to glutamate, the main neurotransmitter that generates electrical activity.
—Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Their equivalent of blood simply sloshes through organs inside their exoskeleton, but their equivalent of a brain is sheathed in protective glial cells.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2023
A number of studies have focused on senescent glial cells in the brain, an important and large class of non-neuronal cells that have a host of critical functions.
—Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
Now Fields and others have figured out exactly how glial cells alter myelin, the insulation of our neural wiring, to support the mind’s acquisition of knowledge.
—Curtis Brainard, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
The team then measured the resulting amount of basal radial glial progenitor cells in the mice neocortexes, noting that the cells increased with the modern human variant of the protein, resulting in a higher production of neurons.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
The researchers, Joshua Raji and Christopher Potter, discovered that the two animals had around 200,000 brain cells on average, mostly neurons, with about 10 to 15 percent non-neuronal cells, such as glial cells.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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“Glial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glial. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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