How to Use glia in a Sentence

glia

noun

• All the other brain cells, called glia, were thought to serve purely supportive roles.
  — Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• Next, get some as yet unknown number of support cells called glia.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• This cross section of a mouse spinal cord, from 1899, shows radial glia cells, the Rodney Dangerfields of brain cells.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 3 May 2018
• Newman's own research focuses on non-neuronal cells in the brain called glia.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• And humans have many more of a certain kind of glia, called astrocytes, than do non-primate mammals.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2013
• Those cells, called radial glia, can be viewed like the framing timbers of a house under construction.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 2 July 2019
• All of your neurons and glia and other bits must self-assemble, and their connections should change based on what your brain encounters.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• But the more neuroscientists examine glia, the more versatile these cells turn out to be.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• These differences were observed in neurons and other brain cells—glia and immune cells called microglia.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2021
• Instead other types of brain cells, called glia, are responsible.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• What drives such disorders, their findings suggest, is a process in which glia turn from nurturing neurons to destroying them.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017
• The team wanted to switch the glia into neurons that would produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter also involved in movement (among other things).
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Far from being mere valets to neurons, glia often take leading roles in protecting the brain’s health and directing its development.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
• But when the researchers examined more precise subtypes of cells—a subset cells known as outer radial glia, for example—the comparisons started to break down.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 29 Jan. 2020
• Many different cellular changes could expand gray matter volume, including the birth of new neurons and of nonneuronal cells called glia.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• So the team came up with a collection of proteins that, ideally, would have reverted those glia to a stem-cell state, then spurred them into developing into dopamine-producing cells.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• These findings, published in Nature, breach the rigid divide between signaling neurons and supportive glia.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
• Many autism risk genes appeared in progenitor cells, whereas schizophrenia genes were more active later—in glia and inhibitory neurons, for instance.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• Neurovirology may take a place alongside sessions on long-term memory, synapses and glia at some future SFN meeting.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2021
• But how can myelinating glia detect neural impulses flowing through axons?
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• Getting quick-to-multiply glia to convert and start producing dopamine could serve as a therapy to help treat Parkinson’s and other disorders involving the neurotransmitter.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• From there, the organoids develop automatically, first generating different types of neurons and then forming other brain cells called glia.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• In 2017, the journal Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets listed cannabidiol as a way to decrease the activity of brain cells called glia, which triggers that hypersensitivity of the nervous system.
  — chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The new theory postulates that establishing indelible memories that can be recalled long after sensory input or training on a task involves an interaction between glia and peculiar brain waves produced during sleep.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024