Glial cells ( also known as glia or neuroglia ) come in several types, and perform a number of critical functions, including structural support, metabolic support, insulation, and guidance of development.

Glial cells ( named from the Greek for " glue ") are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system.

Non-myelinating Schwann cells such as those that form Remak bundles and terminal Schwann cells are positive for S-100 and Glial fibrillary acidic protein ( GFAP ).

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Glial cells maintain homeostasis, produce myelin, and provide support and protection for the brain's neurons.

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Glial cells in a rat brain stained with an antibody against GFAP.

Glial cells, sometimes called neuroglia or simply glia ( Greek γλία, γλοία " glue "; pronounced in English as either or ), are non-neuronal cells that maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and provide support and protection for neurons in the brain, and for neurons in other parts of the nervous system such as in the autonomic nervous system.

Glial cells are known to be capable of mitosis.

Glial cells known as astrocytes enlarge and proliferate to form a scar and produce inhibitory molecules that inhibit regrowth of a damaged or severed axon.

In addition the estimates do not account for Glial cells which are at least as numerous as neurons, may outnumber neurons by as much as 10: 1, and are now known to play a role in cognitive processes.

Other neurotrophic molecules produced by Schwann cells and fibroblasts together include Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor,

Ependymal cells are a type of Glial cell and are also CSF producing cells.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein is an intermediate filament ( IF ) protein that is expressed by numerous cell types of the central nervous system ( CNS ) including astrocytes, and ependymal cells.

The sustentacular cells are S-100 positive and focally positive for Glial fibrillary acidic protein.

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* Glial cells ( brain )

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* GDNF: Glial derived neurotrophic factor is a member of the TGFb family of proteins, and is a potent trophic factor for striatal neurons.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein | GFAP immunostain.

Glial cell synapses are currently unquantified but are known to be extremely numerous.

Another feature that results eventually is Glial scar formation.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein ( GFAP ) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GFAP gene.

Glial fibrllary acidic protein was named and first isolated and characterized by Lawrence F. Eng in 1969.

Glial scarring is a consequence of several neurodegenerative conditions, as well as injury that severs neural material.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein has been shown to interact with MEN1 and PSEN1.

Apoptosis caused by CDV is typically induced via the extrinsic pathway which activates caspases that disrupt cellular function and eventually leads to the cells death.

Understanding the structure and function of cells is fundamental to all of the biological sciences.

Cells that lack F plasmids are called F-negative or F-minus ( F < sup >-</ sup >) and as such can function as recipient cells.

Cytology is that branch of life science, which deals with the study of cells in terms of structure, function and chemistry.

Demyelinating Schwann cells causes abnormal axon structure and function.

In the 19th century, when studying the fermentation of sugar to alcohol by yeast, Louis Pasteur came to the conclusion that this fermentation was catalyzed by a vital force contained within the yeast cells called " ferments ", which were thought to function only within living organisms.

Endocrinology is concerned with the study of the biosynthesis, storage, chemistry, biochemical and physiological function of hormones and with the cells of the endocrine glands and tissues that secrete them.

This protective function of p53 is disabled in most cancer cells, allowing them to multiply without check.

Dr. Naldini's group reasoned that they could use this natural function of microRNA to selectively turn off the identity of their therapeutic gene in cells of the immune system and prevent the gene from being found and destroyed.

Dr. Naldini's group reasoned that they could use this natural function of microRNA to selectively turn off the identity of their therapeutic gene in cells of the immune system and prevent the gene from being found and destroyed.

Most cells are capable of producing one or more molecules, which act as signaling molecules to other cells, altering their growth, function, or metabolism.

Thyroid hormone is critical to normal function of cells.

In these applications, the set of all inputs is some sort of metric space, and the hashing function can be interpreted as a partition of that space into a grid of cells.

This includes the immunological function of cells, organs and systems not normally associated with the immune system, as well as the function of the immune system outside classical models of immunity ( Yemeserach 2010 ).

Their function thus appears to be acid extrusion from cells.

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The rest of the cells, called somatic cells, function within the organism and will die with it.

:* Macrostomum lignano, a free-living, marine flatworm, a model organism for the study of stem cells, regeneration, ageing, gene function, and the evolution of sex.

Genetically modified cells or organisms directly express the fluorescently-tagged proteins, which enables the study of the function of the original protein in vivo.

They lack membrane-bound organelles, and can function and reproduce as individual cells, but often aggregate in multicellular colonies.

Tying into inconclusive effects on monoamine systems, enhanced electrotonic coupling is thought to reduce activity in localized populations of GABAergic neurons whose normal function is to reduce neurotransmitter release in other cells.

* The battery effect ; the cells in the body have the same function as batteries, being charged with energy that comes from an outer source.