Researchers have identified a group of ependymal cells with latent regenerative potential in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice. The cells underwent extensive proliferation and ...

Ependymal cells: lining the spinal cord and the brain’s ventricles (fluid-filled spaces), these create and secrete cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and keep it circulating using their whip-like cilia.

They found that infusing brain cell progenitors with a drug known to pump up the production of Foxj1 triggered more cells to grow into ependymal cells. Surprisingly, when they switched off the ...

the researchers identified a group of latent stem cells in the central nervous system of mice. These are part of the ependymal cells that line the walls of compartments in the brain and spinal ...

Ependymal cells are the specialized cells that serve as both the barrier to keep the CSF running through its channels and as the transport system that moves various molecules between the brain and ...

Glial cells are non-neuronal cells found within the brain and the rest of the nervous ... oligodendrocytes, microglia, ependymal cells, and Schwann cells. Each of these cell types has a particular ...

The central nervous system (CNS) has a limited capacity for ... During development, neural stem cells in the spinal cord differentiate into various neural cells that form complex circuits.

Developed under the leadership of Latus founder Beverly Davidson, PhD, the AAV-Ep+ capsid exhibits exceptional efficiency in targeting ependymal cells lining the brain’s ventricles and cerebral ...

contain fewer endothelial cells and pericytes and more fibroblasts and ependymal cells than other brain regions. [Courtesy of Sun et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2023.] Cytokines, including ...

Brain tumours are usually named after the cell or tissue they started in. For example, ependymoma tumours start in cells called ependymal cells. Brain tumours can start anywhere in the brain or spinal ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed that not all cell types age in the same way and that some – found in a specific ‘hot spot’ – are more sensitive to the aging process.