In humans, there are an equal number of glia as neurons. It’s been known for decades that glia engulf bits and pieces of nearby neurons, a process termed pruning. In particular, glia appear to prune ...

Scientists studying neuronal energy metabolism found evidence that the loss of an important energy regulator called AMPK in neural stem cells or glial cells called astrocytes causes neuronal death ...

The study used data from laboratory mice to establish a new method for examining relationships between neuron type and function, and focused on the mouse primary visual cortex, which receives and ...

"Scientists uncover a new role for blood-brain barrier in neuron function and damage." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 August 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220815150330.htm>.

A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application of focalized damage on an in vitro neuronal network of only a few millimetres and ...

The collaborative study, which included Raghu Rao, MD, and Ivan Tkac, PhD, at UM, revealed that AMPK deleted mice have about 40 percent lower lactate levels, a key result that was verified in ...

"Scientists discover key regulator of neuron function and survival." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 September 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 09 / 200901112214.htm>.