During development, neural stem cells in the spinal ... cords revealed new insights into the behaviors of ependymal and astrocyte cells following SCI, highlighting their dynamic roles in spinal ...

The research team discovered that, during spinal cord development, ependymal cells ... regenerative potential in primates. In contrast, astrocytes in the injured spinal cord exhibited significant ...

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Zhang studies astrocytes because they are the most common glial cell in the brain and because they are neurons’ next of kin. “During development, neural stem cells generate neurons first and later go ...