Pancreatic cancer cells spread with the help of tracks laid by nerve-supporting cells called Schwann cells. Skip to main content Ready to start planning your care? Call us at 800-525-2225 to make an .

Notch signaling and gliogenesis. Notch signaling in Schwann cells has mainly been studied in the context of initial gliogenesis from the neural crest or from crest-like cells 2.Even here, the role ...

Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant ...

When Schwann cell function returned, so did the mice’s ability to detect vibrations. The team was further able to identify differences in sensory input from Schwann cells using optogenetics, ...

Theodor Schwann (7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German zoologist. His many contributions to biology include the development of cell theory, the discovery of Schwann cells in the ...

New research reveals for the first time that despite the fragility of axons, Schwann cells — which surround axons within nerves like a glove covers a hand — can come to the assistance of injured axons ...

19) Brain cells grown from human embryonic stem cells Gist F. Croft, Lauren Pietilla, Stephanie Tse, Szilvia Galgoczi, Maria Fenner, Ali H. Brivanlou/Nikon Small World ...

Researchers reveal how cells in the peripheral nervous system degrade myelin after nerve injury, a process that fails to occur in the central nervous system. The results could provide new targets ...

When Schwann heard about the nucleus, he realized that he had seen a similar structure in the vertebrate notochord—a rodlike structure in the embryo that develops into the spinal column. Sure enough, ...

Under the microscope, these Schwann cells rapidly activate and send signals to other nerves when they are poked. Now, Ernfors wants to find if these cells have anything to do with chronic pain, ...

Ceph­alopodlike oligodendrocytes and sausage-shaped Schwann cells wrap themselves around ... But video and laser-illuminated microscopes developed in the 1980s and 1990s let researchers monitor ...