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What do Astrocytes do, anyway?


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That's pretty cool. So much for the basic ideas of neurophysiology 101... ;)

 

As far as I understand it the Astrocyte is getting looked at more closely by many as several really cool things have been attributed to it lately such as controlling myelination activity of the oligodendrocyte. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WSS-4JGJF17-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=0e02e119e3f7dd4adccc23238490ea2c)

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