Neural stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult central nervous system that can self-renew, and give rise to new neurons and supporting cells called glial cells.

T cells are white blood cells that are important for adaptive immunity. They have unique cell surface receptors that are generated by randomly assorting genes. These receptors allow T cells to ...

Your body is made of cells -- trillions of them. Cells are the basic building blocks of people and all other living things. Researchers study them to learn more about health and diseases.

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more ...

Bacteria consumed by immune cells become part of the cell Date: February 26, 2025 Source: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Summary: Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't ...

What is the immune system? The immune system works to keep germs and other foreign substances out of the body and destroy any that get in. It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It ...

We thank Professor John L. Rubenstein for his comments, suggestions, and edits. We are grateful to Professor Hua Han for sharing the Rbpj floxed mice, and Professor Jean M. Hebert for sharing ...

In summary, these data clearly demonstrate that Notch is not only required for differentiation of wrapping glial cells but it is also sufficient for wrapping glia differentiation as gain of Notch ...

To determine the extent to which NHRs affect sleep:wake cycles, we knocked down each of the 18 highly conserved NHRs found in Drosophila adults and report that the ecdysone receptor (EcR) and its ...

In the CNS such connections are referred to as the glia limitans (7). It also appears that a common cause of HO beyond injury to the peripheral nerve is the release of bone matrix proteins during or ...