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The Functional Roles of Glial Cells in Health and Disease - Dialogue between Glia and Neurons (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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The Functional Roles of Glial Cells in Health and Disease - Dialogue between Glia and Neurons (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 468
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Thirty-five years ago, when Stephen Kuffler and his colleagues at
Harvard initiated a new era of research on the properties and
functions of neuroglial cells, very few neuro scientists were
impressed at the time with the hypothesis that neuroglial cells
could have another, though more subtle, role to play in the nervous
system than to provide static support to neurons. Today, very few
neuroscientists are unaware of the fact that multiple interactions
between neurons and glial cells have been described, and that they
consti tute the basis for understanding the function and the
pathology of the nervous system. Glial cells outnumber neurons and
make up about one-half of the bulk of the nervous system. They are
divided into two major classes: first, the macroglia, which include
astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system, and
the Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system; and second, the
microglial cells. These different classes of glial cells have
different functions and contribute in different ways in the devel
opment, function, and the pathology of the nervous system."
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