How glial cells develop in the brain from neural precursor cells

Monday, December 10, 2018 - 11:40 in Biology & Nature

A research team studied how glial cells develop in the brain from neural precursor cells. They discovered that differentiation involves three stages and that three proteins in the cell nucleus, so-called transcription factors, play a key role in organizing glia-specific transcription of the genes in the cell nucleus.

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