Do your glial cells make you clever?

Robin J M Franklin; Timothy J Bussey

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2013.02.003

Do your glial cells make you clever?

Cell Stem Cell. 2013 Mar 7;12(3):265-6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.02.003.

Authors

Robin J M Franklin¹, Timothy J Bussey

Affiliation

¹ Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK. rjf1000@cam.ac.uk

PMID: 23472865
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.02.003

Abstract

The cellular basis for cognition is generally believed to derive from neurons. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Han et al. (2013) transplant human glial progenitors into mouse brains and thereby improve their learning and memory and implicate a previously unknown role for glial cells in contributing to cognition.

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Grants and funding

079249/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom