Star-shaped brain cells feed long-term memory
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
Star-shaped cells in our brains called astrocytes were once considered little more than structures to fill the gaps between all-important neurons. But more recent evidence has emerged to reveal that those astrocytes play more than a supporting role; they are involved in information processing and signal transmission and they help to regulate the shapes of our neurons and their connections to one another.
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