plural glia
: supporting tissue intermingled with the essential elements of nervous tissue especially in the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia
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The team is particularly interested in what part some non-neuronal cells called glia play in the central nervous system, in addition to immune cells.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024
There are cells called glia that support the nerve functions.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out—such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024
There are cells called glia that support the nerve functions.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
Even as excitement builds about glia in the enteric nervous system, scientists like Scavuzzo have fairly basic questions still to work out—such as how many types of enteric glia even exist.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
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“Glia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glia. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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plural glia
: supporting tissue that is intermingled with the essential elements of nervous tissue especially in the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia, is either of ectodermal or mesodermal origin, and is composed of a network of fine fibrils and of flattened stellate cells with numerous radiating fibrillar processes see macroglia, microglia
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