Each glial cell type has a specific role in supporting the central and peripheral nervous systems. Therefore, dysfunction in glial cells can play a role in developing certain neurological conditions.

In many ways our ideas about CNS and PNS glial cells have changed along a similar trajectory during recent years. In both cases, novel and unexpected glial functions have been determined and glia ...

Glial cells named oligodendrocytes produce myelin around nerves of the central nervous system, while those named Schwann cells make myelin that insulates peripheral nerves.

and a part of the developing heart called the outflow tract includes a group of cells derived from an embryonic structure called the neural crest, which is the source of most peripheral glial ...

Glial cells are found in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The important CNS glial cells are astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocytes, radial glial cells ...

Those derivatives that settle on the roots are Schwann cell precursors, based on their morphology, their intimate ensheathment of axons and their expression of the PNS glial cell marker ErbB3.

Researchers have discovered that, following nerve damage, peripheral glial cells produce the growth factor neuregulin1, which makes an important contribution to the regeneration of damaged nerves.

Schwann cells are a type of glial cells of the peripheral nervous system that help form the myelin sheath around the nerve fibers. Schwann cells are derived from the neural crest and play crucial ...

Glial cells are found in both the CNS and PNS but each system has different types. The following are brief descriptions of the CNS glial cell types: Astrocytes: these cells have numerous ...

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new ...

When a nerve is damaged, glial cells produce the protein neuregulin1 and thereby promote the regeneration of nerve tissue. Unlike the brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system has an ...

Washington, DC — Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells ...