Researchers have identified ependymal cells with latent regenerative potential in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice. If similar cells are identified in humans, this would open new avenues ...

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.

Viruses may spark hydrocephalus by exploiting a surprising weakness of cells that circulate fluid in the brain, called ependymal cells, report scientists. The researchers discovered that ependymal ...

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 ...

More information: Caetano Reis e Sousa, DNGR-1-tracing marks an ependymal cell subset with damage-responsive neural stem cell potential, Developmental Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.07.012 .

Glial cells are non-neuronal cells found within the brain and the rest of the nervous system. There are approximately 60 billion glia to 16 billion neurons within the cortex, but only 16 billion ...

These tumors originate from ependymal cells, which are cells that line the cavities in the brain. Ependymomas are most common in white and non-Hispanic people, and they occur more often in men ...

Detailed mapping of 1.2 million brain cells has revealed ... (microglia, oligodendrocytes, and border-associated macrophages (BAMs)) and specialized glial cells called tanycytes and ependymal cells.

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 ...

Sun isolated 22,514 total cerebrovascular cells, which clustered into 11 subtypes based on their transcriptomes: three endothelial subtypes, three fibroblast, two pericyte, two smooth muscle cells, ...

Brain tumours are usually named after the cell or tissue they started in. For example, ependymoma tumours start in cells called ependymal cells. The area of the brain they are growing in . Brain ...