Editorial
Glia, Next Research Brain Frontier
| Soraya L Valles* | |
| Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain | |
| *Corresponding Author : | Soraya L. Valles, PhD Department of Physiology School of Medicine, University of Valencia BlascoIbañez, 15.46010, Valencia, Spain Tel: 34-96-3864646 Fax: 34-96-3864642 E-mail: lilian.valles@uv.es |
| Received November 10, 2013; Accepted November 11, 2013; Published November 15, 2013 | |
| Citation: Valles SL (2013) Glia, Next Research Brain Frontier. Biochem Physiol 2:e117. doi:10.4172/2168-9652.1000e117 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 Valles SL, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
There are many different cells inside our brain, such as astrocytes, neurons, ependimiary cells, microglia and oligodendroglia. The role of neurons has been studied by decades because of its important interventions in cell communication in the nervous system. However other brain cells, glial cells, have been poorly studied compared to neurons. Astrocytes are more abundant than neurons in brain and in fact, they are more and more glial cells when we advanced in the phylogeny compared to neuron number. Einstein’s brain has three times more astrocytes than normal brain. So many scientists are thinking about the important role of astrocytes in memory, inflammation, oxidative stress, nutrition, cleaner brain cells, etc. Which roles of astrocytes are inside our brain and they have important works in neurogeneration, neurodegeneration and illness?
