Scientists from the Allen Brain Research Institute, the University of British Columbia, the Montreal Neurological Institute and the McGill University Hospital have discovered a new kind of cells thanks to Allen's Spinal Cord Atlas. As it turned out, they act like neural stem cells, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net The experts compiled a detailed map of gene expression in the spinal cord of mice in order to compare the "included" genes in the radial glia of the adult spinal cord with those that operated in other neural stem cells. This allowed us to identify a set of 122 genes that talk about the similarity of these cells with classical neural stem cells, writes Science Daily.

It has always been believed that the nervous system is not capable of self-healing, because the cells that are required for its construction are depleted in the process of development.

Identifying new radial glial cells that are similar to stem cells can help activate a specific set of genes that can affect stem cells and cause them to repair a damaged network in the adult spinal cord, for example, with trauma.

Initially, the doctors were looking for neural stem cells in the very center of the spinal cord. They were actually found there, but a new type of radial glial cells was found along the edge of the spinal cord. This location is very convenient for further stimulation, experts say.

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