More than just glue, glial cells challenge neuron’s top slot

What is your doctor doing to recover dead and damaged glial cells? You need to get the written stroke protocol for this.
http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/11/06/more-than-just-glue-glial-cells-challenge-neurons-top-slot/
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The idea is that they’re just kind of sticking the neurons together and boring. And I just got curious about how could 90 percent of the cells in the brain be boring and not doing anything important…

To get at this question, we developed new methods that allowed us for the first time to separate the brain cells apart into populations of neurons in one dish and populations of glial cells in another culture dish. That way we could ask, ‘What do the neurons do by themselves?,’ and ‘What do they need the glial cells for?”

To our surprise, we found the neurons were completely unable to form synapses by themselves. They absolutely needed to have the glial cells.

The idea is that they’re just kind of sticking the neurons together and boring. And I just got curious about how could 90 percent of the cells in the brain be boring and not doing anything important…
To get at this question, we developed new methods that allowed us for the first time to separate the brain cells apart into populations of neurons in one dish and populations of glial cells in another culture dish. That way we could ask, ‘What do the neurons do by themselves?,’ and ‘What do they need the glial cells for?”
To our surprise, we found the neurons were completely unable to form synapses by themselves. They absolutely needed to have the glial cells.
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