Glial cells support neurological structures, function, cognition, behaviours, physical skills, and motor coordination.

Glial cells also produce and respond to GDNF: astrocyte-derived GDNF can promote neuroprotection but also modulate microglial state and neuroinflammation. Other cell sources, such as pericytes and ...

During the development of peripheral nerves, neural crest cells generate myelinating and non-myelinating glial cells in a process that parallels gliogenesis from the germinal layers of the CNS ...

Huntington's disease has long defied attempts to rescue suffering neurons. A new study in Cell Reports shows that transplanting healthy human glial progenitor cells into the brains of adult animal ...

Glial cell line–derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a potent trophic factor essential for neuronal survival and function. Encoded by the GDNF gene, its mature protein arises from specific ...

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